Table 3.

Percentage of events of death of adults and the elderly by cause and sex

COD (and ICD10 codes)	No. of deaths	%*
		Male	Female	Total	95% CI
Circulatory system (I00-I99)	840	31.5	39.3	35.1	33.1-37.0
Cerebrovascular disease	598	19.9	30.9	25.0
Ischaemic heart disease	122	7.0	2.8	5.1
Other circulatory diseases	120	4.6	5.5	5.0
Infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)	319	15.5	10.8	13.3	12.0-14.7
Diarrhoeal diseases	88	3.1	4.4	3.7
Tuberculosis	146	8.5	3.3	6.1
Other infectious diseases	85	3.9	3.2	3.5
Neoplasm (C00-D48)	274	13.0	9.6	11.4	10.2-12.7
Digestive system	105	5.6	3.0	4.4
Respiratory system	38	2.6	0.4	1.6
Ill-defined unspecified site	131	4.8	6.3	5.5
Respiratory system (J00-J99)	241	11.1	8.4	10.1	8.9-11.3
Asthma	131	6.4	4.4	5.5
COPD	47	1.9	2.1	2.0
Acute respiratory distress syndrome	47	2.2	1.6	2.0
Other respiratory diseases	16	0.9	0.4	0.6
Digestive system (K00-K93)	144	6.2	5.8	6.0	5.1-7.0
Liver diseases	82	3.2	3.7	3.4
Other diseases	62	3.0	2.1	2.6
Endrocrine, nutritional, and metabolic diseases (E00-E90)	143	5.4	6.6	6.0	5.0-6.9
External cause mortality (S00-Y98)	118	5.5	4.3	4.9	4.1-5.8
Self-harm	16	0.7	0.6	0.7
Transport	18	1.2	0.2	0.8
Other injury	84	3.6	3.4	3.6
Genitourinary system (N00-N99)	36	1.8	1.2	1.5	1.0-2.0
Nervous system (G00-G99)	10	0.3	0.5	0.4	0.2-0.7
Congenital malformation (Q00-Q99)	4	0.2	0.2	0.2
Pregnancy, childbirth, and the puerperium (O00-O99)	27	NA	2.5	1.1	0.7-1.5
Blood/blood forming organ (D50-D89)	4	0.1	0.3	0.2
Skin and subcutaneous tissue (L00-L99)	3	0.1	0.2	0.1
Mental and behavioural disorder (F00-F99)	5	0.1	0.5	0.3
Diseases of bones and joints (M00-M99)	3	0.1	0.2	0.1
Not elsewhere classified (R00-R99)	224	9.0	9.7	9.4	8.2-10.5
No. of deaths	2,396	1,294	1,102	NA

*Totals may not add to 100 precisely due to rounding; CI=Confidence interval; COD=Cause of death; COPD=Chronic obstetric pulmonary diseases; ICD=International classification of diseases; NA=Not applicable