Note: The data, last updated in January 2015, is for 2012.
• Ischaemic heart disease — 14.8 percent
• Alzheimer’s and other dementias — 9.5 percent
• Trachea, bronchus, lung cancers — 6.5 percent
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease — 5.8 percent
• Stroke — 5 percent
• Diabetes mellitus — 2.7 percent
• Hypertensive heart disease — 2.7 percent
• Colon and rectum cancers — 2.3 percent
• Kidney diseases — 2.2 percent
• Lower respiratory infections — 2 percent
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