Ischaemic heart disease
COVID-19
Stroke
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Lower respiratory infections
Trachea, bronchus, lung cancers
Alzheimer disease and other dementias
Diabetes mellitus
Kidney diseases
Tuberculosis
COVID-19
Ischaemic heart disease
Stroke
Lower respiratory infections
Preterm birth complications
Back and neck pain
Diabetes mellitus
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Diarrhoeal diseases
Road injury
Causes of death by sex
For death and disability disaggregated by sex, annual global deaths and DALYs among women were around 13% lower than for men. However, women collectively spent about 26% more years living with disability (YLDs). In the past two decades, the greatest increase in female deaths has been from Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, nearly tripled between 2000 and 2021.
The top ten causes of death fact sheet
