Causes of death by country, sex and age group
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In 2003 in Germany the leading causes of death for men in that age group were:- 582 deaths from:
- Alcoholic liver disease - Alcoholic cirrhosis of liver (K703)
- 551 deaths from:
- Acute myocardial infarction - Acute myocardial infarction, unspecified (I219)
- 364 deaths from:
- Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of alcohol - Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of alcohol, dependence syndrome (F102)
- 290 deaths from:
- Intentional self-harm by hanging, strangulation and suffocation - Intentional self-harm by hanging, strangulation and suffocation, unspecified place (X709)
- 263 deaths from:
- Malignant neoplasm of bronchus and lung - Bronchus or lung, unspecified (C349)
- 140 deaths from:
- - Unattended death (R98)
- 139 deaths from:
- Fibrosis and cirrhosis of liver - Other and unspecified cirrhosis of liver (K746)
- 126 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.