Zimbabwe - 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 78.64
2010 61.98
2015 51.25
2019 47.65

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 5.35
2010 9.14
2015 11.81
2019 13.09

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 16.01
2010 28.88
2015 36.95
2019 39.26

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 Zimbabwe was 27.10 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 19 years was 33.50 in 2009, while its lowest value was 19.80 in 2000.

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 19.80
2001 20.20
2002 21.50
2003 22.70
2004 24.50
2005 25.40
2006 27.50
2007 29.50
2008 32.00
2009 33.50
2010 32.70
2011 31.40
2012 30.90
2013 30.80
2014 30.80
2015 30.20
2016 29.50
2017 28.30
2018 27.40
2019 27.10

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 Zimbabwe was 30.30 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 19 years was 34.20 in 2011, while its lowest value was 23.30 in 2000.

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 23.30
2001 23.60
2002 24.10
2003 23.50
2004 24.60
2005 26.30
2006 26.50
2007 30.10
2008 32.40
2009 33.70
2010 34.20
2011 34.20
2012 33.70
2013 32.50
2014 32.00
2015 32.50
2016 31.80
2017 30.90
2018 30.30
2019 30.30

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 Zimbabwe was 28.40 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 19 years was 33.50 in 2009, while its lowest value was 21.40 in 2000.

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 21.40
2001 21.70
2002 22.70
2003 23.10
2004 24.50
2005 25.80
2006 27.00
2007 29.70
2008 32.10
2009 33.50
2010 33.30
2011 32.50
2012 32.00
2013 31.40
2014 31.20
2015 31.10
2016 30.40
2017 29.30
2018 28.50
2019 28.40

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 133.00

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 133.00

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 133.00

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

The value for Mortality rate attributed to unintentional poisoning (per 100,000 population) in Zimbabwe was 3.50 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 19 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 4.60 in 2011 and a minimum value of 2.50 in 2001.

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 2.60
2001 2.50
2002 2.50
2003 2.50
2004 2.80
2005 2.90
2006 3.10
2007 3.50
2008 4.10
2009 4.60
2010 4.60
2011 4.60
2012 4.50
2013 4.50
2014 4.40
2015 4.30
2016 4.20
2017 3.70
2018 3.80
2019 3.50

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 Zimbabwe was 2.80 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 19 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 4.00 in 2009 and a minimum value of 2.20 in 2002.

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 2.40
2001 2.30
2002 2.20
2003 2.20
2004 2.50
2005 2.50
2006 2.90
2007 3.20
2008 3.70
2009 4.00
2010 3.80
2011 3.60
2012 3.70
2013 3.80
2014 3.70
2015 3.50
2016 3.40
2017 2.90
2018 3.10
2019 2.80

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 Zimbabwe was 4.30 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 19 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 5.60 in 2011 and a minimum value of 2.70 in 2002.

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 2.80
2001 2.80
2002 2.70
2003 2.80
2004 3.10
2005 3.30
2006 3.40
2007 3.80
2008 4.60
2009 5.20
2010 5.50
2011 5.60
2012 5.50
2013 5.30
2014 5.10
2015 5.10
2016 5.00
2017 4.50
2018 4.60
2019 4.30

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

The value for Suicide mortality rate, female (per 100,000 female population) in Zimbabwe was 8.80 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 19 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 20.10 in 2009 and a minimum value of 8.70 in 2018.

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 12.40
2001 11.30
2002 11.40
2003 11.40
2004 12.70
2005 11.90
2006 14.10
2007 16.90
2008 19.40
2009 20.10
2010 17.20
2011 15.20
2012 14.30
2013 14.50
2014 14.30
2015 12.60
2016 11.60
2017 9.60
2018 8.70
2019 8.80

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

The value for Suicide mortality rate, male (per 100,000 male population) in Zimbabwe was 20.00 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 19 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 26.80 in 2011 and a minimum value of 14.10 in 2000.

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 14.10
2001 14.40
2002 15.50
2003 15.10
2004 15.70
2005 16.20
2006 14.70
2007 17.70
2008 20.90
2009 24.50
2010 26.20
2011 26.80
2012 25.60
2013 23.00
2014 22.40
2015 23.80
2016 22.50
2017 21.00
2018 19.90
2019 20.00

Suicide mortality rate (per 100,000 population)

The value for Suicide mortality rate (per 100,000 population) in Zimbabwe was 14.10 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 19 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 22.20 in 2009 and a minimum value of 12.80 in 2001.

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 13.30
2001 12.80
2002 13.40
2003 13.20
2004 14.20
2005 14.00
2006 14.40
2007 17.20
2008 20.10
2009 22.20
2010 21.50
2011 20.70
2012 19.70
2013 18.60
2014 18.20
2015 18.00
2016 16.80
2017 15.00
2018 14.00
2019 14.10

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

The value for Mortality caused by road traffic injury (per 100,000 people) in Zimbabwe was 41.20 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 19 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 41.20 in 2019 and a minimum value of 29.30 in 2000.

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 29.30
2001 29.70
2002 32.40
2003 33.70
2004 34.80
2005 35.30
2006 36.50
2007 36.60
2008 37.50
2009 37.90
2010 37.60
2011 37.40
2012 37.30
2013 37.70
2014 37.90
2015 38.70
2016 39.90
2017 40.10
2018 40.60
2019 41.20

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 24.60

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Risk factors