10 Diseases That Cause Many People To Die The WHO Version

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JAKARTA - In 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) revealed 10 diseases that caused the top death to account for 39 million deaths, or 57 percent of the total 68 million deaths worldwide.

The top causes of global death are ordered based on the total number of lives lost. WHO revealed the most diseases in the world are cardiovascular (ischemic heart disease, stroke) and respiratory disease (COVID-19, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lower respiratory tract infection).

COVID-19 appears as the second largest cause of death globally. WHO groups the three major categories of causes of death and worldwide record.

Among them are infectious (infection and parasitic diseases as well as maternal, perintal, and nutritional conditions), non-communicable (chronic illness), and injury.

At the global level, 7 of the top 10 causes of death are non-communicable diseases, covering 38 percent of all deaths, or 68 percent of the top 10 causes.

Reported by VOI from the WHO website on Thursday, December 12, 2024, the world's biggest killer is that heart disease has a percentage of over 13% of the world's total deaths.

Since 2000, the largest increase in deaths has occurred due to the disease, an increase of 2.7 million to 9.1 million deaths.

As a new cause of death, COVID-19 is above 8.8 million deaths. As a result, significantly reduced the other highest cause of death by one rank.

Instead of being the second and third cause of death, such as in 2019, stroke and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease were the third and fourth causes of death, each percentage was above about 10% and 5% of the total death.

Lower respiratory tract infection remains the deadliest infectious disease in the world apart from COVID-19, ranking fifth as the cause of death.

However, the number of deaths has decreased substantially. The disease claimed 2.5 million lives, 370,000 less than in 2000.

Deaths from other non-communicable diseases have also increased. Deaths from trakea, bronkus, and lung cancers have increased from 1.2 million to 1.9 million and are now ranked sixth among the main causes of death.

In addition, Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia are ranked seventh as the main cause of death that killed 1.8 million people.

Women are more affected. Globally, 68% of deaths from Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia are women.

Diabetes is also among the top 10 causes of death, after experiencing a significant percentage increase of 95% since 2000.

Other diseases included in the top 10 causes of death since 2000 have no longer been on the list, HIV and AIDS are among them. Deaths from HIV and AIDS have fallen by 61%, from the seventh cause of death in the world to the 21.

Similarly, deaths from diarrhea have fallen by 45%, from the 6th cause of death to 13th.

On the other hand, kidney disease has increased from the cause of death from 19th, now occupying the 9th position. Here are the 10 most diseases in the world.