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Leading cause of death (2016) (world) The following is a list of the causes of human deaths worldwide for different years arranged by their associated mortality rates. In 2002, there were about 57 million deaths.
Unsafe abortion is a major cause of injury and death among women worldwide. It is estimated that nearly 25 million unsafe abortions take place annually. [ 9 ] WHO estimates that at least 7.9% of maternal deaths are due to unsafe abortion, with a greater proportion occurring in Latin America, the Caribbean, and sub-Saharan Africa and a lesser ...
The direct causes of these maternal deaths are hemorrhage, eclampsia, obstructed labor, sepsis and unskilled abortion. In addition malaria and AIDS can also endanger pregnancy. In the period 2003–2009 hemorrhage was the leading cause of death, accounting for 27% of deaths in developing countries and 16% in developed countries. [48] [49]
Meanwhile, chronic liver disease and cirrhosis were the 11th leading cause of death in 2019 but had climbed to the ninth slot by 2023, with the mortality rate rising by 15% in that span of time.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released its annual list of causes of death in the U.S. The leading cause of death has changed in recent years. COVID-19 has plummeted to ...
COVID-19 has significantly fallen as a leading cause of death in the U.S. for the first time since the pandemic began, according to new provisional data published Thursday from the Centers for ...
The most common cause of spontaneous abortion during the first trimester is chromosomal abnormalities of the embryo or fetus, [46] [59] accounting for at least 50% of sampled early pregnancy losses. [60] Other causes include vascular disease (such as lupus), diabetes, other hormonal problems, infection, and abnormalities of the uterus. [59]
The leading causes in developed countries are atherosclerosis (heart disease and stroke), cancer, and other diseases related to obesity and aging. By an extremely wide margin, the largest unifying cause of death in the developed world is biological aging, [48] leading to various complications known as aging-associated diseases.