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The World Health Organization WHO announced the top 10 deaths worldwide for 20 years from 2000 to 2019. According to a WHO survey, 55% of the 55.4 million people who died in 2019 died from one cause of death in the top 10.
Ischemic heart disease IHD (Ischaemic heart disease) ranked first in the 2019 count. 2nd place is Stroke, 3rd place is Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, 4th place is Lower respiratory infections, 5th place is neonatal conditions, 6th place is trachea ) Cancer and lung cancer (Tranchea, bronchus, lung cancer), 8th place Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, 9th place Diabetes mellitus, 10th place Kidney disease.
The number one cause of death in 2019 is ischemic heart disease, a combination of diseases caused by the absence of blood to the heart such as angina pectoris or myocardial infarction. According to a WHO survey, deaths from ischemic heart disease have increased by more than 2 million over the past 20 years, reaching 8.9 million in 2019. That is, 16% of deaths in 2019 died from ischemic heart disease.
Stroke in second place killed 6 million people, and in third place chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, 3.5 million people died. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a chronic respiratory disease mainly caused by smoking. Lower respiratory tract infections, such as pneumonia and bronchitis, which often take the life of a child, killed more than 3 million people in 2000, but are showing a decreasing trend in recent years. However, it still ranked fourth with 2.6 million deaths in 2019. The fifth place is the combination of death due to suffocation, trauma, sepsis, infection, and complications at birth as a newborn symptom. Although newborn symptoms have decreased by nearly 40% in 20 years, they still kill 2 million people a year. Meanwhile, the number of deaths in the sixth place, tracheal cancer, bronchial cancer, and lung cancer, has shown a sharp rise in recent years, and the number of deaths has increased by 50% over the past 20 years to 1.8 million.
7th place is Alzheimer’s or other dementia. The WHO points out that 65% of the deaths from Alzheimer’s are women. The 8th place is diarrhea, which ranks second in the cause of death for children under 5 years old, the 9th place is diabetes, which showed a remarkable increase of 70% over the past 20 years, and the 10th place is kidney disease, which was 13th in 2000.
WHO also studies the cause of death analysis according to income according to income classification by country or region based on gross national income published by the World Bank. In high-income countries, Alzheimer’s and other dementia are ranked 2nd, colon and rectum cancers in 7th place, and Hypertensive heart disease, a generic term for heart disease caused by long-term hypertension, in 9th place. The WHO also emphasizes that ischemic heart disease and stroke have declined between 20 years. Related information can be found here .
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