![]() Similarly, diarrheal diseases - which claimed 1.6 million people in 2017 and is one of the leading causes of death in children under 5 years old - are also preventable and treatable through improved water, sanitation, hygiene, and simple ‘oral rehydration salt’ (ORS) packets. The very low neonatal death rates in high-income countries and significant progress across the world in recent decades is testament to the fact that we know how to reduce such tragedies significantly. Approximately 1.8 million newborns still died due to complications at birth. There are a number of causes with high death tolls which if not entirely preventable can be (and have been in many countries) dramatically reduced. Cardiovascular diseases were responsible for around one-third of all deaths.Ĭancers (given as the sum of all cancer types - you can find the breakdown here) were the second largest, claiming around 17%, or every sixth death, globally.Ĭollectively, non-communicable diseases (NCDs): together they accounted for more than 41 million deaths (more than 73%) in 2017. The leading global killer in 2017 were cardiovascular diseases (CVD), which refer to a range of diseases that affect the heart and blood vessels: These include hypertension (high blood pressure) coronary heart disease (heart attack) cerebrovascular disease (stroke) heart failure and other heart diseases. You can also the causes of death for any country by clicking on the chart to get to the interactive version of this chart and then chosing ‘Change country’. Note that this list is not exhaustive: deaths from less common causes are not shown. ![]() This is shown in absolute numbers, and each cause as a share of total deaths. In the chart below we see a breakdown of global deaths by cause, ordered from highest to lowest. In 2017, around 56 million people died – nearly half of these were aged 70 years or older 27% aged 50-69 14% aged 15-49 only 1% aged 5-14 and around 10% were children under the age of 5.
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