Table 2. Leading causes of death from infectious disease, South Korea, 1983–2015.
| Rank | 1983 |
2015 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infectious disease | No. deaths | Mortality rate* | Infectious disease | No. deaths | Mortality rate* | ||
| 1 | Tuberculosis | 7,853 | 23.7 | Respiratory tract infections | 15,030 | 19.5 | |
| 2 | Respiratory tract infections | 5,286 | 15.1 | Sepsis | 3,045 | 4.0 | |
| 3 | Intestinal infections | 1,314 | 4.3 | Tuberculosis | 2,209 | 3.0 | |
| 4 | Central nervous system infections | 1,244 | 3.1 | Intestinal infections | 670 | 1.0 | |
| 5 | Vaccine-preventable diseases | 509 | 1.1 | Viral hepatitis | 667 | 1.0 | |
*Age-standardized mortality rate (deaths/100,000 population).