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The following is a list of the causes of human deaths worldwide for the year 2002, arranged by their associated. There were 57,029,000 deaths tabulated for that year. Some causes listed include deaths also included in more specific subordinate causes (as indicated by the 'Group' column), and some causes are omitted, so the percentages do not sum to 100. According to the, about 58 million people died in 2005, using the (ICD). According to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, 52.77 million people died in 2010.The causes listed are relatively immediate medical causes, but the ultimate cause of death might be described differently.
Death certificates are official records that can be two different things: the document that a physician signs attesting to a person's time, date, place and cause of death as well as the document that an. The most common underlying cause of death was circulatory (n = 1,985, 37% of death certificates), followed by dementia (n = 1,613, 30%) and cancer (n = 550, 10%).
For example, tobacco smoking can cause lung disease or cancer, and alcohol abuse can cause liver failure or a motor vehicle accident. For statistics on preventable ultimate causes see. Contents.By frequency The table below uses data from 2002 and is out of date. Data is now available for 2015.Note: Tinted backgrounds indicate items that also appear in the subsequent table. Percentage figures add to more than 100% because some deaths appear in both broadly-defined and narrowly defined categories; for example, Cardiovascular Deaths includes deaths from both Ischaemic Heart Disease and Stroke. WHO (2005).
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