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  1. www.moh.gov.sg › principal-causes-of-deathMOH | Principal Causes of Death

    Breakdown on the causes of death in Singapore.

  2. www.who.int › fact-sheets › detailThe top 10 causes of death - World Health Organization (WHO)

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    Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease claimed 3.0 million lives in 2016, while lung cancer (along with trachea and bronchus cancers) caused 1.7 million deaths. Diabetes killed 1.6 million people in 2016, up from less than 1 million in 2000. Deaths due to dementias more than doubled between 2000 and 2016, making it the 5th leading cause of global de...

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    Road injuries killed 1.4 million people in 2016, about three-quarters (74%) of whom were men and boys.

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    Source: Global Health Estimates 2016: Deaths by Cause, Age, Sex, by Country and by Region, 2000-2016. Geneva, World Health Organization; 2018.

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  3. www.who.int › news › item14.9 million excess deaths associated with the COVID-19 pandemic...

    May 5, 2022 · New estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) show that the full death toll associated directly or indirectly with the COVID-19 pandemic (described as “excess mortality”) between 1 January 2020 and 31 December 2021 was approximately 14.9 million (range 13.3 million to 16.6 million).

  4. ourworldindata.org › excess-mortality-covidExcess mortality during the Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19)

    What is ‘excess mortality’? How is excess mortality measured? 100. A pandemic primer on excess mortality statistics and their comparability across countries. Learn more about measures of excess mortality in our work with John Muellbauer and Janine Aron. Excess mortality P-scores. Cumulative P-scores using projected baseline.

  5. ourworldindata.org › causes-of-deathCauses of Death - Our World in Data

    This chart shows data on causes of death globally for 2019, the year before the Covid-19 pandemic started. Millions of young children die from preventable causes each year. Every child’s death is a tragedy. Globally, the scale of child mortality is immense: five million children under five die yearly.

    • Hannah Ritchie, Max Roser
    • 2018
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  6. ourworldindata.org › grapher › excess-mortality-raw-death-countExcess mortality: Raw number of deaths from all causes compared...

    The reported number of weekly or monthly deaths in 2020–2024 and the projected number of deaths for 2020, which is based on the reported deaths in 2015–2019. Our World in Data Browse by topic

  7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › List_of_causes_of_death_by_rateList of causes of death by rate - Wikipedia

    The following is a list of the causes of human deaths worldwide for different years arranged by their associated mortality rates. In 2002, there were about 57 million deaths. In 2005, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) using the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), about 58 million people died. [1] .