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. 2011 Aug 5;9:50. doi: 10.1186/1478-7954-9-50

Table 1.

Number of deaths for adults, children, and neonates by cause

Adult causes Deaths Child causes Deaths
Acute cardiac death 400 Chronic cardiac death 76

Chronic cardiac death 416 Chronic respiratory disease 12

Chronic respiratory disease 218 Diarrhea 256

Diabetes 414 Drowning 83

Diarrhea 228 HIV/AIDS 20

Disease of nervous system 49 Homicide 52

Drowning 106 Malaria 117

HIV/AIDS 501 Malignancy 28

Homicide 167 Measles 23

Kidney or urinary disease 413 Meningitis 99

Liver disease 313 Other acute infection 111

Malaria 100 Other digestive disease 48

Malignancy 1,090 Other injuries 171

Maternal Death 402 Other noncommunicable diseases 182

Other acute infection 263 Pneumonia/sepsis 678

Other digestive disease 166 Poisoning 18

Other injuries 464 Transport-related accident 92

Other noncommunicable diseases 200 Tuberculosis (pulmonary) 9

Pneumonia/sepsis 609 Total 2075

Poisoning 86

Stroke 630 Neonate causes Deaths

Suicide 124 Congenital malformation 250

Transport-related accident 202 Meningitis 6

Tuberculosis (pulmonary) 275 Perinatal asphyxia 461

Total 7836 Pneumonia/sepsis 250

Preterm/small baby 662

Total 1629