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Lower-middle-income countries have the most balanced top 10 causes of death: 5 noncommunicable, and 5 communicable, with the new cause COVID-19 topping the list and costing over 4 million lives in 2021.
For over a decade, heart disease and cancer have claimed the first and second spots, respectively, as the leading causes of deaths in America. Together, the two causes are responsible for 37.5...
In 2016, the WHO recorded 56.7 million deaths [3] with the leading cause of death as cardiovascular disease causing more than 17 million deaths (about 31% of the total) as shown in the chart to the side. In 2021, there were approx. 68 million deaths worldwide, as per WHO report.
Examples include human immunodeficiency virus infection (the underlying cause of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome), coronary artery atherosclerosis, and metastatic breast cancer.
In law, medicine, and statistics, cause of death is an official determination of the conditions resulting in a human's death, which may be recorded on a death certificate. A cause of death is determined by a medical examiner. In rare cases, an autopsy needs to be performed by a pathologist.
Detailed mortality tables showing deaths, percent of total deaths, and death rates for the top 15 causes of death overall and by age group, race and Hispanic origin, sex, and state, with separate tables for infants.
Globally, non-communicable diseases are the most common causes of death. Millions of young children die from preventable causes each year. Causes of death have changed over time and vary by age. Death rates from communicable and non-communicable disease vary widely around the world. Underlying data on causes of death is limited in many countries.