Causes of death by country, sex and age group

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In 2002 in Belarus the leading causes of death for men in that age group were:

1. 4209 (7.679%) deaths from:
   • - All causes (1000)
2. 2578 (4.703%) deaths from:
   • - Diseases of the circulatory system (1064)
3. 1854 (3.382%) deaths from:
   • - Ischaemic heart diseases (1067)
4. 823 (1.501%) deaths from:
   • - Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified (1094)
5. 563 (1.027%) deaths from:
   • - Cerebrovascular diseases (1069)
6. 378 (0.690%) deaths from:
   • - Neoplasms (1026)
7. 247 (0.451%) deaths from:
   • - Diseases of the respiratory system (1072)
8. 233 (0.425%) deaths from:
   • - Chronic lower respiratory diseases (1076)
9. 81 (0.148%) deaths from:
   • - External causes of morbidity and mortality (1095)
10. 71 (0.130%) deaths from:
    • - Other heart diseases (1068)

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.