How do they know how many people died so soon after a major disaster?

Question

In Turkey and Syria now they’re saying 1,800 people died already. Is it as simple as counting the bodies and reporting that?

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Answer 1

Statistics based on who are living in an area. Most places take a head count every 5 or 10 years. Using that information they can easily estimate how many people are affected and how many died quickly. Then the numbers go up and down from there