Statistics Norway

Causes of death

20   Deaths from different causes, by month of deaths. 20031
ICD-10. Cause of death Total Month of death
January February March April May June July August September October November December
Total (A00-Y89) 42 550    4 235    3 378    3 689    3 468    3 298    3 207    3 440    3 300    3 370    3 452    3 553    4 160
                           
Infectious and parasitic diseases(A00-B99)  609 84 53 68 41 43 43 44 42 49 30 37 75
Malignant neoplasm (C00-C97) 10 509  915  841  872  867  818  843  930  864  862  888  912  897
Drug dependence, toxicomania(F11-F16,F18-F19) 38 5 1 2 2 1 3 3 5 6 2 4 4
Ischaemic heart diseases(I20-I25) 7 292  726  582  669  613  562  519  580  563  596  589  585  708
Cerebrovascular diseases (I60-I69) 4 021  449  325  362  320  346  298  306  281  311  315  334  374
Influenza(J10-J11) 50 3 2 - 2 - - - - - 2 10 31
Pneumonia (J12-J18) 1 792  223  132  142  130  124  133  130  124  115  125  160  254
Asthma (J45-J46)  119 20 8 6 7 11 9 6 8 9 10 13 12
Rest chronic lower respiratory diseases (Rest J40-J47) 1 606  185  119  143  150  113 98  128  126  102  109  149  184
Chronic liver disease K70,K73-K74)  224 20 16 22 16 19 21 25 18 14 17 14 22
Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period(P00-P96)  113 6 13 12 3 13 10 4 12 11 9 6 14
Congenital malformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)  139 17 10 10 11 6 13 8 9 16 10 11 18
Sudden infant death syndrome (R95) 11 1 - 1 2 1 - 1 1 - - 1 3
Deaths from other diseases (Rest A00-R99) 13 565 1 341 1 080 1 171 1 102 1 055 1 033 1 066 1 049 1 091 1 142 1 104 1 331
Transport accidents (V01-V99,Y85)  360 24 22 23 34 29 22 42 37 29 30 38 30
Accidental falls(W00-W19)  843 90 72 67 69 61 57 72 62 52 82 76 83
Exposure to smoke, fire and flames(X00-X09) 52 2 4 5 7 2 4 2 2 6 7 3 8
Accidental poisoning (X40-X49)  319 40 23 26 29 24 38 24 21 21 21 21 31
Suicide and intentional self-harm(X60-X84,Y87.0)  502 44 46 47 42 43 31 37 42 39 42 51 38
Homicide, assault(X85-Y09,Y87.1) 48 9 2 5 2 6 3 4 3 3 2 1 8
Other violent deaths (Rest V01-Y89)  338 31 27 36 19 21 29 28 31 38 20 23 35
1  Following recommadations from WHO all acute intoxication deaths (F10-F19 with fourth digit 0) have been moved from chapter V to chapter XX in ICD-10. For the same reason many pneumonia deaths have been coded differently than in earlier years, cfr. DS 30/3-05, Causes of Death 2003.

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