"total deaths" is correct and usable in written English.
This term can be used to refer to the aggregate number of deaths in any given situation. For example, "The total deaths from the earthquake reached 400."
Jihadis accounted for 935 of total deaths.
an abnormal proportion of deaths from tuberculosis among the total deaths, does it not?
There were 43,593 total deaths including 4,351 lung cancer deaths.
We have counted 1,134 total deaths at the hands of American police in 2015.
Suicide, usually by hanging, represents about one-third of the total deaths.
This year, estimates of total deaths vary from a few hundred to well over a thousand.
Total deaths in motor vehicle crashes in 2007 declined to 41,059, a drop of 3.9percentt compared with 2006.
No fewer than 31,780 of the total deaths are attributed to the improvised landmines laid around Iraq by insurgents.
Last year the total miles traveled declined by about 0.6percentt, and total deaths dropped much more sharply.
Total deaths on the road fell to 1,713 in 2013, the lowest headline figure since records began in 1926.
(Indians accounted for roughly half of the pandemic's total deaths worldwide).
