Statistics Norway

Causes of death

19 Deaths of underlying cause of death, by place of death. Per cent. 2009 1
ICD-10. Cause of death  Deaths, total Place of death
Total Abroad Somatic hospitals Psychiatric hospitals Social care institutions Other healthinstitutions Home and other place outside healthinstitutions Unknown
Total (A00-Y89) 41 342  100 2 36 0 43 1 17 2
                   
Infectious and parasitic diseases(A00-B99)  949  100 0 53 - 40 0 6 1
                   
Malignant neoplasm (C00-C97) 10 544  100 0 46 - 40 1 11 1
                   
Drug dependence, toxicomania(F11-F16,F18-F19) 23  100 - 26 - 4 - 61 9
                   
Ischaemic heart diseases(I20-I25) 5 378  100 1 40 0 31 0 27 2
                   
Cerebrovascular diseases (I60-I69) 3 330  100 1 37 0 54 0 8 1
                   
Influenza(J09-J11) 52  100 - 52 - 27 2 19 -
                   
Pneumonia (J12-J18) 1 698  100 0 33 - 59 0 6 1
                   
Asthma (J45-J46)  113  100 - 19 - 43 1 35 3
                   
Rest chronic lower respiratory diseases (Rest J40-J47) 1 909  100 1 47 - 35 0 16 2
                   
Chronic liver disease K70,K73-K74)  188  100 1 66 - 18 1 14 1
                   
Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period(P00-P96)  103  100 - 93 - - 1 6 -
                   
Congenital malformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)  134  100 1 59 - 18 2 19 2
                   
Sudden infant death syndrome (R95) 13  100 8 23 - - - 54 15
                   
Deaths from other diseases (Rest A00-R99) 14 312  100 5 26 0 51 0 16 1
                   
Transport accidents (V01-V99,Y85)  262  100 1 29 - 1 - 65 3
                   
Accidental falls(W00-W19)  400  100 1 60 - 23 - 15 2
                   
Exposure to smoke, fire and flames(X00-X09) 53  100 - 15 - - - 72 13
                   
Accidental poisoning (X40-X49)  365  100 0 14 0 1 2 73 10
                   
Suicide and intentional self-harm(X60-X84,Y87.0)  573  100 1 7 0 1 0 82 9
                   
Homicide, assault(X85-Y09,Y87.1) 31  100 - 10 - - - 74 16
                   
Other violent deaths (Rest V01-Y89)  912  100 0 37 - 45 0 16 1
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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