Table 2. Ranking of cause of death in 2012 with and without garbage code redistribution.
| Rank | No. of deaths | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cause of death without garbage code redistribution* | No. | Cause of death with garbage code redistribution* | No. | |
| 1 | Lung cancer† | 16,782 | Ischemic heart disease | 25,836 |
| 2 | Ischemic stroke | 15,164 | Ischemic stroke | 20,253 |
| 3 | Ischemic heart disease | 14,640 | Lung cancer† | 17,869 |
| 4 | Self-harm‡ | 14,094 | Self-harm | 15,170 |
| 5 | Liver cancer | 11,413 | Hemorrhagic and other nonischemic stroke | 12,936 |
*Derived from the Statistics Korea Database; †Including tracheal and bronchial cancer; ‡The mortality data from 2010 were applied because prevalence data from 2010 were used to calculate the disability-adjusted life years.