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The number of deaths from COVID-19 has passed one million in almost nine months. The WHO has warned that could double if countries don’t take greater action to tackle the pandemic. 56 million people died in 2017, with cardiovascular disease the leading cause of death globally. More than a million people have now died of COVID-19 – the ...
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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...
Road injuries killed 1.4 million people in 2016, about three-quarters (74%) of whom were men and boys.
Source: Global Health Estimates 2016: Deaths by Cause, Age, Sex, by Country and by Region, 2000-2016. Geneva, World Health Organization; 2018.
Homicides — when people intentionally and illegally kill others for personal reasons — are the most serious crime. They are a common cause of death globally and a leading cause of death in some countries. They not only rob the victims of their lives: they also hurt the victims’ friends and families, they harm the broader community, and ...
The world’s biggest killer is ischaemic heart disease, responsible for 13% of the world’s total deaths. Since 2000, the largest increase in deaths has been for this disease, rising by 2.7 million to 9.0 million deaths in 2021. As a newly emerged cause of deaths, COVID-19 was directly responsible for 8.7 million deaths in 2021.
Apr 3, 2019 · The analysis, in the Lancet, found that our daily diet is a bigger killer than smoking and is now involved in one in five deaths around the world. Salt - whether in bread, soy sauce or processed ...
Heart diseases were the most common cause, responsible for a third of all deaths globally. Cancers were in second, causing almost one-in-five deaths. Taken together, heart diseases and cancers are the cause of every second death. In red are infectious diseases, which are responsible for around 1-in-7 deaths.
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Dec 10, 2020 · According to WHO, heart disease has remained the leading cause of death at the global level for the last 20 years, but it is now killing more people than ever before, representing 16 per cent of total deaths from all causes. The number of deaths from heart disease increased over fourfold, from 2 million since 2000, to nearly 9 million in 2019.
