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Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) include cardiovascular disease, cancers, diabetes and respiratory disease.
Injuries include road accidents, homicides, conflict deaths, drowning, fire-related accidents, natural disasters and suicides.
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- Age-standardized death rate from cardiovascular diseases, per 100,000 individuals
- Age-standardized death rate from non-communicable diseases
- Cancer death rates by age group
- Cancer death rates by type
- Cancer deaths by type
- Cardiovascular disease death rate vs. GDP per capita
- Cardiovascular disease death rates by age
- Causes of death in children under 5
- Causes of death in under-5s
- Causes of deaths for 15 to 49 year olds
- Causes of deaths for 50 to 69 year olds
- Causes of deaths for children between 5 and 14
- Causes of deaths for people who were 70 years and older
- Cholera deaths in Great Britain over the long-term
- Death rate by cause
- Death rate due to road traffic injuries
- Death rate from Alzheimer & other dementia
- Death rate from cancer
- Death rate from cardiovascular disease
- Death rate from diarrheal diseases
- Death rate from drowning
- Death rate from fires and burns
- Death rate from malnutrition
- Death rate from opioid overdoses
- Death rate from road accidents
- Death rate from tuberculosis
- Death rate from tuberculosis, by age
- Death rate from unintentional poisoning
- Death rate from venomous animal contact
- Death rates by broad cause category
- Death rates from mental health and substance use disorders
- Death rates through the 20th century
- Deaths by age
- Deaths from cancer, by age
- Deaths from cardiovascular diseases, by age
- Deaths from dementia-related diseases, by age
- Deaths from diarrheal diseases, by age
- Deaths from drowning, by age
- Deaths from fire, by age
- Deaths from mental health and substance use disorders
- Deaths from protein-energy malnutrition, by age
- Deaths from road incidents, by age
- Deaths from stroke, by age
- Deaths from tuberculosis, by age
- Diarrheal disease death rates by age
- Diarrheal disease death rates vs. access to sanitation
- Drowning death rate vs. GDP per capita
- Drowning death rates – children under the age of 5
- Drowning deaths rate by age
- Fire death rates by age
- Heptatitis death rate
- Incidence of venomous animal contact
- Malnutrition death rate vs. GDP per capita
- Mortality caused by road traffic injury (per 100,000 people)
- Mortality from non-communicable diseases
- Motor vehicle, motorcyclist, cyclist and pedestrian deaths
- Number of deaths by cause
- Number of deaths by risk factor
- Number of deaths by risk factor aged 15-49
- Number of deaths by risk factor aged 5-14
- Number of deaths by risk factor aged 50-69
- Number of deaths by risk factor aged 70+
- Number of deaths by risk factor for under-5s
- Number of deaths from road injuries
- Number of executions
- Number of reported road incidents
- Probability of death from any of the top global causes of death
- Protein-energy malnutrition death rates by age
- Relative coverage of causes of death in The Guardian newspaper
- Relative coverage of causes of death in the New York Times (NYT)
- Relative share of Google searches for causes of death
- Relative share of deaths in the United States
- Respiratory disease death rate
- Respiratory disease death rates by age
- Respiratory disease deaths by age
- Road deaths over the long-term
- Road incident death rate vs. GDP per capita
- Road incident death rates by age
- Road mortality rate per 100,000: IHME vs. WHO data
- Road traffic deaths
- Share of deaths by cause
- Stroke death rates
- Stroke death rates by age
- Total number of deaths by cause category
- Total number of fatal shark attacks
- Total shark attacks per year
- Twentieth century of deaths