The Leading Causes of Death in Every Country

The world is dealing with Coronavirus now. Most of us wouldn’t want to turn on the news. You find the remote, and while you’re just going through the channels, “50,000 newly infect-”. No thanks!

It doesn’t mean that we had an easy time watching the news before the pandemic. There’s always bombings, plane crashes, road accidents, and the list goes on.

If we know the leading cause of death in each country, we could do something to solve them with separate solutions for each region.

This is a map showing the leading cause of lost years of life in every country:

Lost years of life simply means the difference between the expected life expectancy and the number of years the person actually lived.

This is a study from 2013. So, the data might have been different had the study been done now; nonetheless, we can expect the data to have not changed very much.

If you look at the map, you can see a pattern here. The more developed countries have more deaths from heart disease, instead of something communicable or preventable/easily curable like diarrhea, malaria, HIV/AIDS, etc.

In Africa, more people die from diseases like malaria, HIV/AIDS, and preterm birth. These things are easily preventable.

It is kind of what we would expect. In Africa, there are countries with less medical services, less aware people, poverty, illiteracy, and hundreds of other things that make these “preventable” diseases inevitable. There are many organizations working to solve this problem, and the deaths from the above reasons are constantly decreasing.

China, on the other hand has stroke as its leading cause of death. Because of the industrial rise, people are constantly working. They can’t give thought to their diet and what they eat. While the preventable and easily curable diseases are not a big cause of concern for Chinese people because of the health facilities, they should be aware of the diseases that increase in number with age.

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