What are the top 10 causes of death up to last month August 2024? Well, the World Health Organisation has listed these
Using a 2021 global data, the organisation said the top 10 causes of death accounted for 39 million deaths, or 57% of the total 68 million deaths worldwide.
The top global causes of death, in order of total number of lives lost, are associated with two broad topics:
- cardiovascular (ischaemic heart disease, stroke) and respiratory (COVID-19, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lower respiratory infections), with
- COVID-19 emerging as the second leading causes of death globally.
Top 10 causes of death can be grouped into three categories:
- communicable (infectious and parasitic diseases and maternal, perinatal and nutritional conditions),
- noncommunicable (chronic)
- injuries
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