More mortality and global health estimates data products. Deaths due to dementias more than doubled between 2000 and 2016 making it the 5th leading cause of global deaths in 2016 compared to 14th in 2000. Top 10 causes of death situation and trends.
World health statistics 2020. Here in descending order are the top 10 causes of death in the united states. Life expectancy for women remained consistently higher than for men with a difference in greater life expectancy of 5 0 years.
The 10 leading causes of infant death however remained the same and were led by congenital malformations and low birth weight. Flourish hat tip bill sweet this is a mind blowing animation showing that as of april 8th the covid 19 virus has risen to be the single leading daily cause of death in america note not year to date or accumulated but daily. Us daily average cause of death source.
This means americans are falling victim to the same diseases and health conditions year after year and getting involved in a similar amount of accidents. To crunch these numbers we looked at the cdc s latest mortality data released in 2020 and learned the top 10 leading causes of death didn t change between 2017 and 2018. Promoted the 10 leading causes of death in america.
Five months into 2020 the novel coronavirus left behind every other disease to become the top reason. On january 1 2020 the biggest cause behind worldwide deaths was an age old disease malaria. Cause specific mortality estimates for 2000 2015.
The top 20 covers almost 70 of total deaths occurring in the world every day. Top 20 death causes in the world 2020 live. Live world death statistics list of death causes in the world for today and for 2020.
