Table 2.
Percentage of deaths due to communicable, maternal, neonatal, and nutritional diseases, non-communicable diseases, and injuries according to GBD 2016 estimates and death records in 1990 and 2015
| 1990 | 2015 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Males | Females | Males | Females | |||||
| GBD | Death records | GBD | Death records | GBD | Death records | GBD | Death records | |
| Communicable, maternal, neonatal, and nutritional | 63 (61–66) | 63 | 66 (63–69) | 64 | 54 (48–59) | 38 | 53 (48–60) | 36 |
| Non-communicable | 31 (28–33) | 31 | 30 (27–33) | 33 | 39 (34–44) | 53 | 42 (36–47) | 59 |
| Injuries (including self-harm and interpersonal violence) | 6 (5–7) | 6 | 4 (3–4) | 3 | 7 (6–8) | 8 | 4 (4–5) | 4 |
Cause-specific mortality fractions are in % (with 95% uncertainty intervals for the GBD in parentheses). Estimates from death records are standardized using the age structure of deaths estimated in the GBD 2016 in 1990 and 2015