Causes of death by country, sex and age group

Updated: Now includes the 14 April 2008 data files from the World Health Organisation; this means data very good data for 2004 and 2005.

Do you worry that any of the following might kill you or your family ?

If you do, you have found this website just in time ! Using Mortality Statistics from the World Heath Organisation, you find out what actually kills people of your age and sex in your country.

What actually kills people like me ?

The biggest killers worldwide in 2005

  1. 439,610 deaths from:
    • Acute myocardial infarction - Acute myocardial infarction, unspecified (I219)
  2. 380,416 deaths from:
    • Malignant neoplasm of bronchus and lung - Bronchus or lung, unspecified (C349)
  3. 303,413 deaths from:
    • Chronic ischaemic heart disease - Atherosclerotic heart disease (I251)
  4. 254,959 deaths from:
    • - Stroke, not specified as haemorrhage or infarction (I64)
  5. 214,016 deaths from:
    • Pneumonia, organism unspecified - Pneumonia, unspecified (J189)
  6. 193,438 deaths from:
    • Other chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, unspecified (J449)
  7. 156,624 deaths from:
    • Chronic ischaemic heart disease - Chronic ischaemic heart disease, unspecified (I259)
  8. 113,805 deaths from:
    • Malignant neoplasm of breast - Breast, unspecified (C509)
  9. 112,310 deaths from:
    • - Unspecified dementia (F03)
  10. 111,947 deaths from:
    • - Senility (R54)

All data comes from the World Health Organisation Statistical Information System. Causes of death are coded using the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10).

The numbers in brackets represent your chance of dying of that cause in that year. These are calculated as (deaths of that cause in that country, age group and sex that year) / (population of that country, age group and sex that year).

You can download the original data from the WHO Mortality Database.