Table 1. Percentage of injury deaths by cause, South Africa 2000.
| Males
n = 45 237 |
Females
n = 14 698 |
Persons
n = 59 935 |
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| Rank | Cause of injury death | % | Cause of injury death | % | Cause of injury death | % | ||
| 1 | Homicide/interpersonal violencea | 50.9 | Road traffic injuries | 32.6 | Homicide/interpersonal violencea | 46.0 | ||
| 2 | Road traffic injuries | 24.8 | Homicide/interpersonal violencea | 30.8 | Road traffic injuries | 26.7 | ||
| 3 | Suicide/self-inflicted violence | 9.3 | Fireb | 12.5 | Suicide/self-inflicted violence | 9.1 | ||
| 4 | Fireb | 5.1 | Suicide/self-inflicted violence | 8.6 | Fireb | 6.9 | ||
| 5 | Drowning | 2.4 | Surgical/medical misadventure | 4.3 | Drowning | 2.3 | ||
| 6 | Other transport injuries | 1.7 | Falls | 2.6 | Surgical/medical misadventure | 2.0 | ||
| 7 | Falls | 1.4 | Drowning | 2.2 | Falls | 1.7 | ||
| 8 | Other unintentional injuries | 1.3 | Other unintentional injuries | 1.7 | Other transport injuries | 1.7 | ||
| 9 | Surgical/medical misadventure | 1.2 | Poisoning | 1.7 | Other unintentional injuries | 1.4 | ||
| 10 | Poisoning | 0.8 | Other transport injuries | 1.5 | Poisoning | 1.1 | ||
| 11 | Mining injuries | 0.5 | Suffocation and foreign bodies | 0.9 | Suffocation and foreign bodies | 0.4 | ||
| 12 | Suffocation and foreign bodies | 0.3 | Natural and environmental factors | 0.4 | Mining injuries | 0.4 | ||
| 13 | Natural and environmental factors | 0.3 | Mining injuries | 0.0 | Natural and environmental factors | 0.3 | ||
| 14 | Warc | 0.0 | Warc | 0.0 | Warc | 0.0 | ||
| All injuries | 100.0 | All injuries | 100.0 | All injuries | 100.0 | |||
NIMSS, the national injury mortality surveillance system. a Using NIMSS data, it was not possible to distinguish deaths due to legal intervention from homicide/interpersonal violence-related deaths, as all of these deaths are coded as homicide. Although the proportion of deaths from legal intervention probably is small, it was necessary to combine homicide and legal intervention (other intentional) injuries when comparing this with data from other WHO regions. b It was not possible to differentiate deaths from fire-related burns (flame burns and respiratory damage due to smoke inhalation) from other burns. The majority of burn deaths are fire-related. It was possible, however, to distinguish between different burn categories in the Cape Metropole study (CMS) data. c There were no war-related deaths in South Africa in 2000.