China loses 10 million to 11.5 million people each year

Daily: ≈ 28,000 – 32,000 people

Hourly: ≈ 1,200 – 1,300 people

Per minute: ≈ 20 – 22 people

Every 3 seconds: ≈ 1 person passes away

Equivalent to the disappearance of a medium-sized county every day

or over 100 fully loaded large passenger planes worth of people each day