Causes of death by country, sex and age group
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In 2002 in Portugal the leading causes of death for men in that age group were:- 99 (0.051%) deaths from:
- Motor- or nonmotor-vehicle accident, type of vehicle unspecified - Person injured in unspecified motor-vehicle accident, traffic (V892)
- 93 (0.048%) deaths from:
- Acute myocardial infarction - Acute myocardial infarction, unspecified (I219)
- 54 (0.028%) deaths from:
- Malignant neoplasm of bronchus and lung - Bronchus or lung, unspecified (C349)
- 39 (0.020%) deaths from:
- - Unspecified human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease (B24)
- 35 (0.018%) deaths from:
- Malignant neoplasm of stomach - Stomach, unspecified (C169)
- 33 (0.017%) deaths from:
- Alcoholic liver disease - Alcoholic cirrhosis of liver (K703)
- 31 (0.016%) deaths from:
- Intentional self-harm by hanging, strangulation and suffocation - Intentional self-harm by hanging, strangulation and suffocation, unspecified place (X709)
- 29 (0.015%) deaths from:
- Intracerebral haemorrhage - Intracerebral haemorrhage, unspecified (I619)
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.