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This list shows causes of human deaths, worldwide, for a single year (2002) arranged by the associated mortality rate. There were 57,029,000 deaths tabulated for that year. Some causes listed include deaths also included in more specific subordinate causes (as indicated by the ''Group'' column), and some causes are omitted, so the percentages do not sum to 100.

Contents

List of causes

Developed vs. developing economies

Notes

References

See also

List of causes

Group [1]	Cause	Percent  of deaths	Deaths per 100,000 per year
			All	Male	Female
–	All causes	100.00	916.1	954.7	877.1
A	Cardiovascular diseases	29.34	268.8	259.3	278.4
B	Infectious and parasitic diseases	19.12	175.2	185.1	165.1
A.1	Ischemic heart disease	12.64	115.8	121.4	110.1
C	Malignant neoplasms (cancers)	12.49	114.4	126.9	101.7
A.2	Cerebrovascular disease (Stroke)	9.66	88.5	81.4	95.6
B.1	Respiratory infections	6.95	63.7	63.5	63.8
B.1.1	Lower respiratory tract infections	6.81	62.4	62.2	62.6
D	Respiratory diseases	6.49	59.5	61.1	57.9
E	Unintentional injuries	6.23	57.0	73.7	40.2
B.2	HIV/AIDS	4.87	44.6	46.2	43.0
D.1	Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	4.82	44.1	45.1	43.1
–	Perinatal conditions	4.32	39.6	43.7	35.4
F	Digestive diseases	3.45	31.6	34.9	28.2
B.3	Diarrheal diseases	3.15	28.9	30.0	27.8
G	Intentional injuries (suicide, murder, war, etc.)	2.84	26.0	37.0	14.9
B.4	Tuberculosis	2.75	25.2	32.9	17.3
B.5	Malaria	2.23	20.4	19.4	21.5
C.1	Lung cancers	2.18	20.0	28.4	11.4
E.1	Road traffic accidents	2.09	19.1	27.8	10.4
B.6	Childhood diseases	1.97	18.1	18.0	18.2
H	Neuropsychiatric disorders	1.95	17.9	18.4	17.3
–	Diabetes mellitus	1.73	15.9	14.1	17.7
A.3	Hypertensive heart disease	1.60	14.6	13.4	15.9
G.1	Suicide	1.53	14.0	17.4	10.6
C.2	Stomach cancer	1.49	13.7	16.7	10.5
I	Diseases of the genitourinary system	1.49	13.6	14.1	13.1
F.1	Cirrhosis of the liver	1.38	12.6	16.1	9.1
I.1	Nephritis/nephropathy	1.19	10.9	11.0	10.7
C.3	Colorectal cancer	1.09	10.0	10.3	9.7
C.4	Liver cancer	1.08	9.9	13.6	6.2
B.6.1	Measles	1.07	9.8	9.8	9.9
G.2	Violence	0.98	9.0	14.2	3.7
–		0.89	8.2	0.0	16.5
–	Congenital abnormalities	0.86	7.9	8.1	7.7
J	Nutritional deficiencies	0.85	7.8	6.9	8.7
C.5	Breast cancer	0.84	7.7	0.1	15.3
C.6	Esophageal cancer	0.78	7.2	9.1	5.2
A.4	Inflammatory heart disease	0.71	6.5	6.7	6.2
H.1	Alzheimer's disease and other dementias	0.70	6.4	4.7	8.1
E.2	Falls	0.69	6.3	7.5	5.0
E.3	Drowning	0.67	6.1	8.4	3.9
E.4	Poisoning	0.61	5.6	7.2	4.0
C.7	Lymphomas, multiple myeloma	0.59	5.4	5.4	5.4
A.5	Rheumatic heart disease	0.57	5.3	4.4	6.1
C.8	Oral cancers and oropharynx cancers	0.56	5.1	7.1	3.1
E.5	Fires	0.55	5.0	3.8	6.2
B.6.2	Pertussis	0.52	4.7	4.7	4.8
C.9	Prostate cancer	0.47	4.3	8.6	0.0
C.10	Leukemia	0.46	4.2	4.7	3.8
F.2	Peptic ulcer disease	0.46	4.2	5.0	3.5
J.1	Protein-energy malnutrition	0.46	4.2	4.2	4.2
–	Endocrine/nutritional disorders	0.43	3.9	3.4	4.4
D.2	Asthma	0.42	3.9	3.9	3.8
C.11	Cervical cancer	0.42	3.8	0.0	7.7
C.12	Pancreatic cancer	0.41	3.7	3.9	3.5
B.6.3	Tetanus	0.38	3.4	3.4	3.5
B.7	Sexually transmitted diseases excluding HIV	0.32	2.9	2.9	2.9
C.13	Bladder cancer	0.31	2.9	4.0	1.7
B.8	Meningitis	0.30	2.8	2.9	2.7
G.3	War	0.30	2.8	5.0	0.5
B.7.1	Syphilis	0.28	2.5	2.7	2.3
–	Neoplasms other than malignant	0.26	2.4	2.4	2.4
J.2	Iron deficiency anemia	0.24	2.2	1.5	2.9
C.14	Ovarian cancer	0.24	2.2	0.0	4.4
B.9	Tropical diseases	0.23	2.1	2.5	1.6
H.2	Epilepsy	0.22	2.0	2.2	1.8
–	Musculoskeletal diseases	0.19	1.7	1.2	2.2
B.10	Hepatitis B	0.18	1.7	2.3	1.0
H.3	Parkinson's disease	0.17	1.6	1.6	1.6
H.4	Alcohol use disorders	0.16	1.5	2.5	0.4
H.5	Drug use disorders	0.15	1.4	2.2	0.5
B.1.2	Upper respiratory infections	0.13	1.2	1.2	1.2
C.15	Uterine cancer	0.12	1.1	0.0	2.3
–	Skin diseases	0.12	1.1	0.8	1.4
C.16	Melanoma and other skin cancers	0.12	1.1	1.1	1.0
B.11	Hepatitis C	0.09	0.9	1.1	0.6
B.9.1	Leishmaniasis	0.09	0.8	1.0	0.7
B.9.2	Trypanosomiasis	0.08	0.8	1.0	0.5
I.2	Benign prostatic hyperplasia	0.06	0.5	1.0	0.0

''Source:'' World Health Organization, 2004.

Developed vs. developing economies

Top causes of death, according to World Health Organization report for calendar year 2001. ^[2]

Causes of death in developing countries	Number of deaths	Causes of death in developed countries	Number of deaths
HIV-AIDS	2,678,000	Ischaemic heart disease	3,512,000
Lower respiratory infections	2,643,000	Stroke	3,346,000
Ischaemic heart disease	2,484,000	Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	1,829,000
Diarrhea	1,793,000	Lower respiratory infections	1,180,000
Cerebrovascular disease	1,381,000	Lung cancer	938,000
Childhood diseases	1,217,000	Car accident	669,000
Malaria	1,103,000	Stomach cancer	657,000
Tuberculosis	1,021,000	High blood pressure	635,000
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	748,000	Tuberculosis	571,000
Measles	674,000	Suicide	499,000

Notes

1. ''Group'' is a value showing the relationship of groups of causes. For instance, statistics for "A" (cardiovascular diseases) include those for "A.1" (ischemic heart disease), "A.2" (cerebrovascular disease), and so on. If no value is shown for a cause, there are no other causes grouped with that cause.
2. http://ucatlas.ucsc.edu/cause.php

References

★ World Health Organization, 2004. ''The world health report 2004 - changing history'', "Annex Table 2: Deaths by cause, sex and mortality stratum in WHO regions, estimates for 2002". PDF

See also

★ Lists of people by cause of death