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Estimated Annual Global Mortality from Major Surgery compared to Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke, Cancer and Injury.
| Deaths per year (million) | Year | Percent Total Deaths |
Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total All-Aged Deaths | 56.9 | 2017 | 10 | |
| Cardiovascular and Stroke | 17.9 | 2016 | 31% | WHO |
| Cancer | 9.6 | 2018 | 17% | WHO |
| Injury | 5.8 | 2014 | 10% | WHO |
| Major Surgery (1–4% of 310M) | ∼8.0a | See Text | 14% | See Text |
Average mortality. World Health Organization (WHO) data from website.
