Causes of death · real data
Who dies of what?
46 causes of death, each with the risk by age, the countries where it's highest and what changes it — computed from official statistics for the 36 countries that publish causes of death by age. The numbers are the lifetime chance of dying of each cause in the median country.
Heart & circulation
Cancers
- Lung cancerM 5.1% · F 3.1%
- Colorectal cancerM 2.9% · F 2.3%
- Breast cancerM 0.04% · F 3.2%
- Prostate cancerM 3.2% · F 0%
- Pancreatic cancerM 1.7% · F 1.6%
- Oesophageal cancerM 0.68% · F 0.19%
- Stomach cancerM 1.0% · F 0.63%
- Liver cancerM 1.1% · F 0.58%
- Cervical cancerM 0% · F 0.27%
- Uterine & ovarian cancerM 0% · F 1.6%
- Leukaemia & lymphomaM 2.1% · F 1.6%
- Brain cancerM 0.64% · F 0.54%
- Melanoma (skin cancer)M 0.36% · F 0.26%
- Kidney cancerM 0.64% · F 0.35%
- Bladder cancerM 1.2% · F 0.39%
- Mouth, throat & larynx cancerM 0.97% · F 0.31%
- Other cancersM 3.8% · F 3.4%
Lungs
Brain & nerves
Metabolic & kidneys
Digestive system & liver
Mental health & substances
- Alcohol use disorderM 0.38% · F 0.10%
- Drug use disorderM 0.04% · F 0.01%
- Other mental health conditionsM 0.14% · F 0.17%
- SuicideM 1.4% · F 0.44%
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Injuries & violence
- Road accidentsM 0.71% · F 0.22%
- FallsM 1.3% · F 1.2%
- DrowningM 0.14% · F 0.04%
- Accidental poisoning & overdoseM 0.26% · F 0.13%
- HomicideM 0.07% · F 0.05%
- Other accidentsM 1.1% · F 0.86%
- Other injuries (incl. undetermined intent)M 0.39% · F 0.25%
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Infections
Pregnancy, birth & early life
Screening programmes compared, country by country: breast cancer · colorectal cancer · cervical cancer · lung cancer · prostate cancer.
By country and age instead? Causes of death by country.