United Arab Emirates - Cause of death

Cause of death, by communicable diseases and maternal, prenatal and nutrition conditions (% of total)

Definition: Cause of death refers to the share of all deaths for all ages by underlying causes. Communicable diseases and maternal, prenatal and nutrition conditions include infectious and parasitic diseases, respiratory infections, and nutritional deficiencies such as underweight and stunting.

Source: Derived based on the data from WHO's Global Health Estimates.

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Year Value
2000 10.32
2010 7.18
2015 7.03
2019 7.09

Cause of death, by injury (% of total)

Definition: Cause of death refers to the share of all deaths for all ages by underlying causes. Injuries include unintentional and intentional injuries.

Source: Derived based on the data from WHO's Global Health Estimates.

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Year Value
2000 20.84
2010 25.85
2015 21.33
2019 15.81

Cause of death, by non-communicable diseases (% of total)

Definition: Cause of death refers to the share of all deaths for all ages by underlying causes. Non-communicable diseases include cancer, diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular diseases, digestive diseases, skin diseases, musculoskeletal diseases, and congenital anomalies.

Source: Derived based on the data from WHO's Global Health Estimates.

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Year Value
2000 68.84
2010 66.97
2015 71.64
2019 77.10

Mortality from CVD, cancer, diabetes or CRD between exact ages 30 and 70, female (%)

Mortality from CVD, cancer, diabetes or CRD between exact ages 30 and 70, female (%) in United Arab Emirates was 15.50 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 19 years was 21.90 in 2000, while its lowest value was 15.50 in 2019.

Definition: Mortality from CVD, cancer, diabetes or CRD is the percent of 30-year-old-people who would die before their 70th birthday from any of cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, or chronic respiratory disease, assuming that s/he would experience current mortality rates at every age and s/he would not die from any other cause of death (e.g., injuries or HIV/AIDS).

Source: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory Data Repository (http://apps.who.int/ghodata/).

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Year Value
2000 21.90
2001 21.60
2002 21.10
2003 20.70
2004 20.20
2005 19.80
2006 19.20
2007 18.80
2008 18.10
2009 17.80
2010 17.60
2011 17.40
2012 17.20
2013 17.00
2014 16.80
2015 16.50
2016 16.20
2017 16.00
2018 15.70
2019 15.50

Mortality from CVD, cancer, diabetes or CRD between exact ages 30 and 70, male (%)

Mortality from CVD, cancer, diabetes or CRD between exact ages 30 and 70, male (%) in United Arab Emirates was 19.80 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 19 years was 25.60 in 2000, while its lowest value was 19.80 in 2019.

Definition: Mortality from CVD, cancer, diabetes or CRD is the percent of 30-year-old-people who would die before their 70th birthday from any of cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, or chronic respiratory disease, assuming that s/he would experience current mortality rates at every age and s/he would not die from any other cause of death (e.g., injuries or HIV/AIDS).

Source: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory Data Repository (http://apps.who.int/ghodata/).

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Year Value
2000 25.60
2001 25.50
2002 25.20
2003 24.90
2004 24.50
2005 24.50
2006 24.00
2007 23.80
2008 22.70
2009 22.40
2010 22.20
2011 21.90
2012 21.90
2013 21.70
2014 21.60
2015 21.30
2016 21.00
2017 20.70
2018 20.10
2019 19.80

Mortality from CVD, cancer, diabetes or CRD between exact ages 30 and 70 (%)

Mortality from CVD, cancer, diabetes or CRD between exact ages 30 and 70 (%) in United Arab Emirates was 18.50 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 19 years was 24.40 in 2000, while its lowest value was 18.50 in 2019.

Definition: Mortality from CVD, cancer, diabetes or CRD is the percent of 30-year-old-people who would die before their 70th birthday from any of cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, or chronic respiratory disease, assuming that s/he would experience current mortality rates at every age and s/he would not die from any other cause of death (e.g., injuries or HIV/AIDS).

Source: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory Data Repository (http://apps.who.int/ghodata/).

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Year Value
2000 24.40
2001 24.20
2002 23.90
2003 23.50
2004 23.20
2005 23.10
2006 22.70
2007 22.50
2008 21.60
2009 21.30
2010 21.10
2011 20.90
2012 20.70
2013 20.50
2014 20.30
2015 19.90
2016 19.60
2017 19.30
2018 18.80
2019 18.50

Mortality rate attributed to household and ambient air pollution, age-standardized, female (per 100,000 female population)

Definition: Mortality rate attributed to household and ambient air pollution is the number of deaths attributable to the joint effects of household and ambient air pollution in a year per 100,000 population. The rates are age-standardized. Following diseases are taken into account: acute respiratory infections (estimated for all ages); cerebrovascular diseases in adults (estimated above 25 years); ischaemic heart diseases in adults (estimated above 25 years); chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in adults (estimated above 25 years); and lung cancer in adults (estimated above 25 years).

Source: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory Data Repository (http://apps.who.int/ghodata/).

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Year Value
2016 45.00

Mortality rate attributed to household and ambient air pollution, age-standardized, male (per 100,000 male population)

Definition: Mortality rate attributed to household and ambient air pollution is the number of deaths attributable to the joint effects of household and ambient air pollution in a year per 100,000 population. The rates are age-standardized. Following diseases are taken into account: acute respiratory infections (estimated for all ages); cerebrovascular diseases in adults (estimated above 25 years); ischaemic heart diseases in adults (estimated above 25 years); chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in adults (estimated above 25 years); and lung cancer in adults (estimated above 25 years).

Source: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory Data Repository (http://apps.who.int/ghodata/).

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Year Value
2016 59.00

Mortality rate attributed to household and ambient air pollution, age-standardized (per 100,000 population)

Definition: Mortality rate attributed to household and ambient air pollution is the number of deaths attributable to the joint effects of household and ambient air pollution in a year per 100,000 population. The rates are age-standardized. Following diseases are taken into account: acute respiratory infections (estimated for all ages); cerebrovascular diseases in adults (estimated above 25 years); ischaemic heart diseases in adults (estimated above 25 years); chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in adults (estimated above 25 years); and lung cancer in adults (estimated above 25 years).

Source: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory Data Repository (http://apps.who.int/ghodata/).

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Year Value
2016 54.70

Mortality rate attributed to unintentional poisoning (per 100,000 population)

The value for Mortality rate attributed to unintentional poisoning (per 100,000 population) in United Arab Emirates was 0.400 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 19 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.600 in 2006 and a minimum value of 0.300 in 2017.

Definition: Mortality rate attributed to unintentional poisonings is the number of deaths from unintentional poisonings in a year per 100,000 population. Unintentional poisoning can be caused by household chemicals, pesticides, kerosene, carbon monoxide and medicines, or can be the result of environmental contamination or occupational chemical exposure.

Source: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory Data Repository (http://apps.who.int/ghodata/).

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Year Value
2000 0.600
2001 0.500
2002 0.500
2003 0.500
2004 0.500
2005 0.500
2006 0.600
2007 0.500
2008 0.500
2009 0.500
2010 0.500
2011 0.500
2012 0.500
2013 0.500
2014 0.400
2015 0.400
2016 0.400
2017 0.300
2018 0.400
2019 0.400

Mortality rate attributed to unintentional poisoning, female (per 100,000 female population)

The value for Mortality rate attributed to unintentional poisoning, female (per 100,000 female population) in United Arab Emirates was 0.100 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 19 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.100 in 2019 and a minimum value of 0.100 in 2000.

Definition: Mortality rate attributed to unintentional poisonings is the number of female deaths from unintentional poisonings in a year per 100,000 female population. Unintentional poisoning can be caused by household chemicals, pesticides, kerosene, carbon monoxide and medicines, or can be the result of environmental contamination or occupational chemical exposure.

Source: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory Data Repository (http://apps.who.int/ghodata/).

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Year Value
2000 0.100
2001 0.100
2002 0.100
2003 0.100
2004 0.100
2005 0.100
2006 0.100
2007 0.100
2008 0.100
2009 0.100
2010 0.100
2011 0.100
2012 0.100
2013 0.100
2014 0.100
2015 0.100
2016 0.100
2017 0.100
2018 0.100
2019 0.100

Mortality rate attributed to unintentional poisoning, male (per 100,000 male population)

The value for Mortality rate attributed to unintentional poisoning, male (per 100,000 male population) in United Arab Emirates was 0.500 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 19 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 0.800 in 2006 and a minimum value of 0.400 in 2017.

Definition: Mortality rate attributed to unintentional poisonings is the number of male deaths from unintentional poisonings in a year per 100,000 male population. Unintentional poisoning can be caused by household chemicals, pesticides, kerosene, carbon monoxide and medicines, or can be the result of environmental contamination or occupational chemical exposure.

Source: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory Data Repository (http://apps.who.int/ghodata/).

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Year Value
2000 0.800
2001 0.800
2002 0.700
2003 0.700
2004 0.700
2005 0.700
2006 0.800
2007 0.700
2008 0.700
2009 0.700
2010 0.700
2011 0.700
2012 0.600
2013 0.600
2014 0.600
2015 0.500
2016 0.500
2017 0.400
2018 0.500
2019 0.500

Suicide mortality rate, female (per 100,000 female population)

The value for Suicide mortality rate, female (per 100,000 female population) in United Arab Emirates was 3.00 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 19 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 3.90 in 2001 and a minimum value of 2.80 in 2017.

Definition: Suicide mortality rate is the number of suicide deaths in a year per 100,000 population. Crude suicide rate (not age-adjusted).

Source: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory Data Repository (http://apps.who.int/ghodata/).

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Year Value
2000 3.90
2001 3.90
2002 3.70
2003 3.50
2004 3.50
2005 3.40
2006 3.50
2007 3.30
2008 3.20
2009 3.20
2010 3.30
2011 3.20
2012 3.20
2013 3.20
2014 3.10
2015 3.00
2016 2.90
2017 2.80
2018 2.90
2019 3.00

Suicide mortality rate, male (per 100,000 male population)

The value for Suicide mortality rate, male (per 100,000 male population) in United Arab Emirates was 8.00 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 19 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 10.80 in 2001 and a minimum value of 6.80 in 2017.

Definition: Suicide mortality rate is the number of suicide deaths in a year per 100,000 population. Crude suicide rate (not age-adjusted).

Source: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory Data Repository (http://apps.who.int/ghodata/).

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Year Value
2000 10.80
2001 10.80
2002 10.10
2003 9.30
2004 9.60
2005 9.80
2006 10.30
2007 10.20
2008 10.30
2009 10.30
2010 10.10
2011 9.90
2012 9.60
2013 9.10
2014 8.60
2015 7.90
2016 7.30
2017 6.80
2018 7.40
2019 8.00

Suicide mortality rate (per 100,000 population)

The value for Suicide mortality rate (per 100,000 population) in United Arab Emirates was 6.40 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 19 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 8.60 in 2001 and a minimum value of 5.60 in 2017.

Definition: Suicide mortality rate is the number of suicide deaths in a year per 100,000 population. Crude suicide rate (not age-adjusted).

Source: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory Data Repository (http://apps.who.int/ghodata/).

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Year Value
2000 8.60
2001 8.60
2002 8.00
2003 7.50
2004 7.70
2005 7.90
2006 8.30
2007 8.30
2008 8.50
2009 8.50
2010 8.40
2011 8.20
2012 7.90
2013 7.50
2014 7.00
2015 6.50
2016 6.00
2017 5.60
2018 6.00
2019 6.40

Mortality caused by road traffic injury (per 100,000 people)

The value for Mortality caused by road traffic injury (per 100,000 people) in United Arab Emirates was 8.90 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 19 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 24.20 in 2003 and a minimum value of 8.90 in 2019.

Definition: Mortality caused by road traffic injury is estimated road traffic fatal injury deaths per 100,000 population.

Source: World Health Organization, Global Status Report on Road Safety 2018 through Global Health Observatory data repository.

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Year Value
2000 16.00
2001 15.80
2002 22.40
2003 24.20
2004 20.90
2005 18.70
2006 17.20
2007 17.70
2008 18.00
2009 19.00
2010 19.40
2011 19.10
2012 17.90
2013 17.60
2014 17.80
2015 18.10
2016 17.90
2017 13.30
2018 11.30
2019 8.90

Mortality rate attributed to unsafe water, unsafe sanitation and lack of hygiene (per 100,000 population)

Definition: Mortality rate attributed to unsafe water, unsafe sanitation and lack of hygiene is deaths attributable to unsafe water, sanitation and hygiene focusing on inadequate WASH services per 100,000 population. Death rates are calculated by dividing the number of deaths by the total population. In this estimate, only the impact of diarrhoeal diseases, intestinal nematode infections, and protein-energy malnutrition are taken into account.

Source: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory Data Repository (http://apps.who.int/ghodata/).

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Year Value
2016 0.100

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Risk factors