Table 2.

Cause-specific mortality fractions for neonates (day of life 0 to 28) and non-neonates (day of life 29 to 5 years)

Age group	GBD Group 1 (Communicable, maternal, neonatal, and nutritional disorders)		GBD Group 2 (Non-communicable diseases)		GBD Group 3 (Injuries)
	Cause of death	CSMF	Cause of death	CSMF	Cause of death	CSMF
Neonates	Neonatal pneumonia	26.5	Congenital malformation	1.0
	Birth asphyxia	11.3	Epilepsy	0.6
	Other and unspecified neonatal COD	8.5	Other and unspecified cardiac disease	0.4
	Meningitis and encephalitis	7.9
	Prematurity	6.4
	Neonatal sepsis	5.6
	Acute abdomena	0.5
	TOTAL	66.7	TOTAL	2.0	TOTAL	–
Non-neonates	Malaria	34.7	Epilepsy	2.3	Accidental drowning and submersion	1.3
	Acute resp. infections, including pneumonia	19.7	Congenital malformation	0.9	Road traffic accident	0.7
	HIV/AIDS-related death	12.0	Asthma	0.7	Other and unspecified external COD	0.6
	Acute abdomena	7.6			Other transport accident	0.6
	Diarrheal diseases	5.9			Assault	0.5
	Meningitis and encephalitis	1.2
	Other and unspecified infect disease	0.9
	Severe malnutrition	0.9
	TOTAL	82.9	TOTAL	3.9	TOTAL	3.7

31.3% of neonatal deaths and 9.5% of non-neonatal deaths identified as “indeterminate”

COD cause of death, CSMF Cause-specific mortality fraction, GBD Global Burden of Disease

^aMay have mixed etiologies