The 10 leading causes of death by broad income group (2004)
Low-income countries
Deaths in millions
% of deaths
Lower respiratory infections
2.94
11.2
Coronary heart disease
2.47
9.4
Diarrhoeal diseases
1.81
6.9
HIV/AIDS
1.51
5.7
Stroke and other cerebrovascular diseases
1.48
5.6
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
0.94
3.6
Tuberculosis
0.91
3.5
Neonatal infections
0.90
3.4
Malaria
0.86
3.3
Prematurity and low birth weight
0.84
3.2
Middle-income countries
Deaths in millions
% of deaths
Stroke and other cerebrovascular disease
3.47
14.2
Coronary heart disease
3.40
13.9
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
1.80
7.4
Lower respiratory infection
0.92
3.8
Trachea, bronchus, lung cancers
0.69
2.9
Road traffic accidents
0.67
2.8
Hypertensive heart disease
0.62
2.5
Stomach cancer
0.55
2.2
Tuberculosis
0.54
2.2
Diabetes mellitus
0.52
2.1
High-income countries
Deaths in millions
% of deaths
Coronary heart disease
1.33
16.3
Stroke and other cerebrovascular diseases
0.76
9.3
Trachea, bronchus, lung cancers
0.48
5.9
Lower respiratory infections
0.31
3.8
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
0.29
3.5
Alzheimer and other dementias
0.28
3.4
Colon and rectum cancers
0.27
3.3
Diabetes mellitus
0.22
2.8
Breast cancer
0.16
2.0
Stomach cancer
0.14
1.8
World
Deaths in millions
% of deaths
Coronary heart disease
7.20
12.2
Stroke and other cerebrovascular diseases
5.71
9.7
Lower respiratory infections
4.18
7.1
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
3.02
5.1
Diarrhoeal diseases
2.16
3.7
HIV/AIDS
2.04
3.5
Tuberculosis
1.46
2.5
Trachea, bronchus, lung cancers
1.32
2.3
Road traffic accidents
1.27
2.2
Prematurity and low birth weight
1.18
2.0
The top 10 causes of death:
1,2,3,4,5
| Death distribution
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs310/en/index.html
Ricky
"Speak your mind even if your voice shakes." - Maggie Kuhn
--- On Sun, 10/17/10, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu> wrote:
From: C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Tim Johnson / killing people
To: "Jenifer Cartwright" <jencart13 at yahoo.com>
Cc: Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net, "Karen Medina" <kmedina67 at gmail.com>
Date: Sunday, October 17, 2010, 6:14 PM
But not the way a 100,000-strong army does - or Predator drones.
And equating them is ludicrous.
On 10/17/10 6:00 PM, Jenifer Cartwright wrote:
Then there's the
argument that lack of support for social programs, e g
S-CHIP, also kills people -- meaning people already here
on earth.
--Jenifer
--- On Sun, 10/17/10, Karen Medina <kmedina67 at gmail.com>
wrote:
From: Karen Medina <kmedina67 at gmail.com>
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Tim Johnson / killing
people
To: Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net
Date: Sunday, October 17, 2010, 11:47 AM
> Killing people is the
most important thing the Obama administration is
> doing.
For many years, Tim Johnson had no problem with
killing people in
Iraq, Afghanistan, ...
Tim Johnson STILL has no problem with the United
States support of
Israel killing people.
ergo: Tim Johnson's motivation is not the stopping
of killing people.
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