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The number of deaths due to the "Bottom 10" stories is about 50 million. The average life-years lost may be about 30. Thus, the number of characters would be 1.5 billion life-years / 40,000 life-years/character = 40,000 characters. Previous articles on these topics:

Congo war3500 characters
Darfur genocide650 characters
Malaria10,000 characters
AIDS3000 characters
"Marshall 2"3600/4 characters

Total18,000 characters

Thus, this article could be 40,000-18,000=12,000 characters. Since this article has 4300 characters, there could be more articles on these topics.


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