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(KSL News) People in Utah are dying at a slower rate than the rest of the nation.
Census data shows the state had the fourth lowest death rate in the nation in 2006, at just 7.1 per 1,000 people.
The Deseret News went through the data and found the state also had the lowest mortality rate in the nation, for children under the age of 1.