Measles affects about 20 million people a year,[3] primarily in the developing areas of Africa and Asia.[6] No other vaccine-preventable disease causes as many deaths.[11] In 1980, 2.6 million people died of it,[6] and in 1990, 545,000 died; by 2014, global vaccination programs had reduced the number of deaths from measles to 73,000.[8][12] Rates of disease and deaths, however, increased in 2017 due to a decrease in immunization.[13] The risk of death among those infected is usually 0.2%,[5] but may be up to 10% In countries with malnutrician. That is a lot more than 2.