Causes of death by country, sex and age group

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In 2002 in Thailand the leading causes of death for women in that age group were:
  1. 436 deaths from:
    • Human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease resulting in infectious and parasitic diseases - HIV disease resulting in unspecified infectious or parasitic disease (B209)
  2. 321 deaths from:
    • - Malignant neoplasm without specification of site (C80)
  3. 302 deaths from:
    • Other septicaemia - Septicaemia, unspecified (A419)
  4. 207 deaths from:
    • Pneumonia, organism unspecified - Pneumonia, unspecified (J189)
  5. 199 deaths from:
    • Malignant neoplasm of breast - Breast, unspecified (C509)
  6. 167 deaths from:
    • Intracerebral haemorrhage - Intracerebral haemorrhage, unspecified (I619)
  7. 151 deaths from:
    • Malignant neoplasm of liver and intrahepatic bile ducts - Liver, unspecified (C229)
  8. 149 deaths from:
    • Malignant neoplasm of cervix uteri - Cervix uteri, unspecified (C539)

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.