Forbes December 11, 2020
The World Health Organization has published new data highlighting the leading causes of death worldwide in 2019. Collectively, the top 10 causes of death accounted for 55% of the 55.4 million deaths that occurred last year and seven of them were noncommunicable diseases. Altogether, noncommunicable diseases accounted for 74% of all deaths recorded worldwide. The top global causes, in order of lives lost, are associated with three broad conditions – cardiovascular (ischaemic heart disease, stroke), respiratory (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lower respiratory infections) and neonatal conditions (birth asphyxia and birth trauma, neonatal sepsis and infections, as well as preterm birth complications).
Ischaemic heart disease was the leading cause of death at the turn of the century with 6.8 million people...
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