Table 3.

The top 10 leading causes of death in Korea, 2014

Rank	Cause of death	No. of deaths	Percentage of all deaths	Age-standardized death rate per 100,000a)
	All causes	267,692	100.0	295.7
1	Cancer	76,611	28.6	85.1
2	Heart disease	26,588	9.9	27.7
3	Cerebrovascular disease	24,486	9.1	24.8
4	Intentional self-harm (suicide)	13,836	5.2	19.3
5	Pneumonia	12,021	4.5	11.6
6	Diabetes mellitus	10,526	3.9	10.7
7	Chronic lower respiratory diseases	7,171	2.7	6.9
8	Disease of liver	6,635	2.5	8.0
9	Transport accidents	5,700	2.1	8.0
10	Hypertensive diseases	5,061	1.9	4.9
	Others	79,057	29.5	88.8

Source: Mortality Data, 2014, Statistics Korea [8].

^a)Age-adjusted using the Segi’s world standard population.