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Global death rate - leading causes 2016

Leading causes of death worldwide in 2016 (in millions)

The data depicts the ten leading causes of death worldwide in 2016. Ischemic heart diseases were the major cause of death worldwide that year with a number of some 9.43 million deaths. Strokes were ranked second, causing worldwide some 5.78 million deaths in the same year.

Ischemic heart disease	9.43
Stroke	5.78
COPD	3.04
Lower respiratory infections	2.96
Alzheimer disease and other dementias	1.99
Trachea bronchus, lung cancers	1.71
Diabetes mellitus	1.6
Road injury	1.4
Diarrhoeal diseases	1.38
Tuberculosis	1.29

Global death rate - leading causes 2016

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