Causes of death by country, sex and age group
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In 2005 in Japan the leading causes of death for men in that age group were:- 3293 deaths from:
- Pneumonia, organism unspecified - Pneumonia, unspecified (J189)
- 1547 deaths from:
- - Senility (R54)
- 1002 deaths from:
- Heart failure - Heart failure, unspecified (I509)
- 782 deaths from:
- Sequelae of cerebrovascular disease - Sequelae of cerebral infarction (I693)
- 664 deaths from:
- Cerebral infarction - Cerebral infarction, unspecified (I639)
- 453 deaths from:
- Acute myocardial infarction - Acute myocardial infarction, unspecified (I219)
- 391 deaths from:
- Pneumonitis due to solids and liquids - Pneumonitis due to food and vomit (J690)
- 263 deaths from:
- Malignant neoplasm of bronchus and lung - Bronchus or lung, unspecified (C349)
- 255 deaths from:
- Malignant neoplasm of stomach - Stomach, unspecified (C169)
All data comes from the World Health Organisation Statistical Information System. Causes of death are coded using the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10).
The numbers in brackets represent your chance of dying of that cause in that year. These are calculated as (deaths of that cause in that country, age group and sex that year) / (population of that country, age group and sex that year).
You can download the original data from the WHO Mortality Database.