0 the number of people who die because of an event such as a war or an accident:
1 the number of people who died as a result of an event:
The day after the earthquake the death toll had risen to 90.
The annual death toll from infectious diseases is now more than 17 million.
The death toll keeps increasing, even as politicians struggle to negotiate their individual share in the shrinking national pie.
The annual death toll went in both towns from less than 5,000 burials per annum around 1600 to around 20,000 in the 1670s.
From the death toll, we turn now to the dogs' suffering.
On the other hand, he is diffident towards attempts to minimise the death toll involved (p. 175) or to play down political responsibilities.
In their absence, some observers have tried to calculate the death toll in 1947 by comparing census data.
Independent of which estimate represents the actual death toll, there is no disagreement about the severity of this famine.
The living conditions in these camps are deplorable, and the death toll from dehydration, hunger and diseases has been alarming.
