After years of decline, US death rates increased in 2015. The updated death rate was set at 730 deaths per 100,000 people, an increase from just 723 per 100,000 people a year prior. Notably, diseases such as "Alzheimer's disease, chronic liver disease and cirrhosis, chronic lower respiratory diseases, hypertension, Parkinson's disease..." were contributors for this increase. Back in the 1900s, the annual death rate was a scary one out of every 42 persons. Alzheimer's disease was found to have increased its death rate to 29.2 per 100,000 people, an increase from 25.4 per 100,000 people in the previous year.

Source: Huffington Post June 12, 2016 23:26 UTC