Causes of death by country, sex and age group

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In 2002 in Ecuador the leading causes of death for men in that age group were:
  1. 56 deaths from:
    • Assault by other and unspecified firearm discharge - Assault by other and unspecified firearm discharge, unspecified place (X959)
  2. 54 deaths from:
    • Pedestrian injured in other and unspecified transport accidents - Pedestrian injured in unspecified transport accident (V099)
  3. 44 deaths from:
    • Acute myocardial infarction - Acute myocardial infarction, unspecified (I219)
  4. 43 deaths from:
    • - Unspecified human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease (B24)
  5. 35 deaths from:
    • Fibrosis and cirrhosis of liver - Other and unspecified cirrhosis of liver (K746)
  6. 32 deaths from:
    • Heart failure - Heart failure, unspecified (I509)
  7. 29 deaths from:
    • - Essential (primary) hypertension (I10)

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.