Causes of death by country, sex and age group
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In 2000 in Peru the leading causes of death for women in that age group were:- 414 deaths from:
- - Unattended death (R98)
- 314 deaths from:
- Pneumonia, organism unspecified - Bronchopneumonia, unspecified (J180)
- 204 deaths from:
- Pneumonia, organism unspecified - Pneumonia, unspecified (J189)
- 190 deaths from:
- Acute myocardial infarction - Acute myocardial infarction, unspecified (I219)
- 141 deaths from:
- Other cerebrovascular diseases - Cerebrovascular disease, unspecified (I679)
- 127 deaths from:
- - Essential (primary) hypertension (I10)
- 107 deaths from:
- Malignant neoplasm of stomach - Stomach, unspecified (C169)
- 103 deaths from:
- Other septicaemia - Septicaemia, unspecified (A419)
- 90 deaths from:
- Heart failure - Heart failure, unspecified (I509)
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.