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Leading causes of death

IHME - GBD (2019)
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What you should know about this indicator

For each country-year the disease or injury that caused the most deaths according to the IHME - Global Burden of Disease Study (2019).

The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) provides a comprehensive picture of mortality and disability across countries, time, age, and sex. It quantifies health loss from hundreds of diseases, injuries, and risk factors, so that health systems can be improved and disparities eliminated.

GBD research incorporates both the prevalence of a given disease or risk factor and the relative harm it causes. With these tools, decision-makers can compare different health issues and their effects.

Source
IHME - Global Burden of Disease Study (2019) – processed by Our World in Data
Last updated
October 4, 2023
Next expected update
October 2024
Date range
1990–2019

Sources and processing

This data is based on the following sources

IHME, Global Burden of Disease Study (2019)

Data published by

Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation

The hierarchy of diseases and injuries included in the Global Burden of Disease Study.

Retrieved on
October 4, 2023
Retrieved from
https://ghdx.healthdata.org/record/ihme-data/gbd-2019-cause-rei-and-location-hierarchies
Citation
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Global Burden of Disease Collaborative Network. Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 (GBD 2019) Cause, REI, and Location Hierarchies. Seattle, United States of America: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), 2020.

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“Data Page: Leading causes of death”, part of the following publication: Saloni Dattani, Fiona Spooner, Hannah Ritchie and Max Roser (2023) - “Causes of Death”. Data adapted from Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. Retrieved from http://staging-site-fix-deleted-assets-in-cache/grapher/leading-cause-of-death [online resource]
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IHME - Global Burden of Disease Study (2019) – processed by Our World in Data. “Leading causes of death – IHME - GBD (2019)” [dataset]. Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, “Global Burden of Disease Study” [original data]. Retrieved June 14, 2024 from http://staging-site-fix-deleted-assets-in-cache/grapher/leading-cause-of-death