DID YOU KNOW: An average of 1,591 persons died daily in 2016

According to the Philippine Statistics Authority, an average of 1,591 persons died daily in the country in 2016. The reported deaths that year reached 582,183 or six persons per a thousand. The 2016 figure was 21,578 more or 3.8 percent higher than the 560,605 deaths reported in 2015. —Marielle Medina