As per a study that appeared in the journal Lancet has revealed that there has been a decline in the number of malarial death across the globe between 2004 and 2010. A group of US researchers also revealed that malarial deaths were double than the expected number of the World Health Organization.

Lead author Dr. Christopher Murray of the University of Washington in Seattle told that they have prepared new data using a new computer model. They assessed all the data from 1980 to 2010 and found that 1.24 million people died in 2010 due to malaria.

The figure was quite different from the expected number of the Who which predicted the total count to be somewhere around 655,000 deaths in 2010. The research that was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation said that good part of the story is that number of deaths has started to reduce since 2004.

From 1980 to 2004, the total number deaths were 1.82 million but they have reduced to 1.24 million in 2010. Murray told that there are different reasons for significant rise and decline in the number of malarial deaths. The rise is attributed to rise in population and poor awareness level among people regarding malaria.

However, after 2004, there has been decline in the number of deaths due to increased awareness level and availability of medicines. Murray told, "Since 2004, the number of malaria deaths has dropped by about a third, and that's really been the time when the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria has swung into action".

Another thing that was revealed was that complete eradication is not a short term task. It would need a lot of effort, but they hope to decline the number of deaths by 2020.