Table 3.
Leading causes of death in China
| Year | Rural (%) |
Urban (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cancer | Heart conditions | Cerebrovascular disease | Respiratory disease | Cancer | Heart conditions | Cerebrovascular disease | Respiratory disease | |
| 2000 | 18.4 | 12.4 | 18.4 | 23.1 | 24.4 | 17.7 | 21.3 | 13.3 |
| 2001 | 17.7 | 13.1 | 19.0 | 22.5 | 24.9 | 17.6 | 20.4 | 13.4 |
| 2002 | 20.7 | 14.3 | 17.3 | 15.6 | 23.5 | 14.6 | 17.5 | 15.6 |
| 2003 | 25.3 | 12.0 | 23.8 | 18.7 | 25.5 | 14.4 | 20.0 | 14.6 |
| 2004 | 23.7 | 12.5 | 14.9 | 13.3 | 23.9 | 18.8 | 19.1 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 20.3 | 11.8 | 21.2 | 23.5 | 22.9 | 17.9 | 21.2 | 12.6 |
| 2006 | 25.1 | 13.9 | 20.4 | 16.4 | 27.3 | 17.1 | 17.7 | 13.1 |
| 2007 | 24.8 | 14.8 | 20.6 | 17.2 | 28.5 | 16.3 | 18.0 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 25.4 | 14.1 | 21.7 | 16.9 | 27.1 | 19.7 | 19.6 | 11.9 |
| 2009 | 24.3 | 17.2 | 23.2 | 15.0 | 27.0 | 20.8 | 20.4 | 10.5 |
| 2010 | 23.1 | 17.9 | 23.4 | 14.2 | 26.3 | 20.9 | 20.2 | 11.0 |
| 2011 | 23.6 | 19.4 | 21.7 | 13.3 | 27.8 | 21.3 | 20.2 | 10.6 |
| 2012 | 23.0 | 18.1 | 20.6 | 15.8 | 26.8 | 21.5 | 19.6 | 12.3 |
| 2013 | 22.4 | 21.9 | 22.9 | 11.5 | 25.5 | 21.6 | 20.3 | 12.4 |
| 2014 | 23.0 | 21.7 | 22.9 | 12.1 | 26.2 | 22.1 | 20.4 | 12.0 |
| 2015 | 23.2 | 21.8 | 23.2 | 12.1 | 26.4 | 22.0 | 20.6 | 11.8 |
| 2016 | 22.9 | 22.2 | 23.3 | 12.0 | 26.1 | 22.6 | 20.6 | 11.2 |
| 2017 | 23.1 | 22.7 | 23.2 | 11.6 | 26.1 | 23.0 | 20.6 | 10.9 |
| 2018 | 23.0 | 23.5 | 23.2 | 11.2 | 26.0 | 23.3 | 20.5 | 10.8 |
| 2019 | 23.3 | 23.8 | 22.9 | 10.8 | 25.7 | 23.7 | 20.6 | 10.4 |
| 2020 | 23.1 | 24.5 | 23.5 | 9.1 | 25.4 | 24.6 | 21.3 | 8.7 |
National Bureau of Statistics of China.