In 2010, global deaths were 139,300, 74 percent less than the tally of 535,300 in 2000.
India accounted for 47 percent of measles deaths in 2010 and African countries for 36 percent, according to the study, led by Peter Strebel of the WHO's Department of Immunisation, Vaccines and Biologicals.
It said it expected a substantial fall in measles mortality in India by 2015 under a 2011-2013 plan to immunise 134 million children.
Source: AFP
