Statistics Norway

Causes of death

2 Deaths by underlying cause of death. Age standarised. The whole country. 5 year groups. 1986-2010
  1986-1990 1991-1995 1996-2000 2001-2005 2006-2010
Deaths, total  727.6  684.0  630.5  566.0  506.8
Infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) 5.4 5.3 7.3 8.3 10.6
Neoplasms (C00-D48)  185.0  184.1  183.4  174.0  163.2
Diseases of the blood and bloodformin organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism (D50-D89) 2.0 2.8 1.5 1.6 1.6
Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E90) 10.7 10.9 13.0 13.5 13.5
Mental and behavioural disorders (F00-F99) 13.9 16.6 18.6 18.7 20.1
Diseases of the nervous system and the sense organs (G00-H95) 13.3 13.4 15.9 18.4 20.0
Diseases of the circulatory system (I00-I99)  353.8  310.5  267.2  213.4  166.2
Diseases of the respiratory system (J00-J99) 66.2 68.7 56.0 52.4 48.9
Diseases of the digestive system (K00-K93) 23.7 20.4 20.9 19.0 16.7
Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue (L00-L99) 0.6 0.6 0.7 0.9 0.9
Diseases of musculoskeletal system/connective tissue (M00-M99) 4.0 3.8 4.3 3.6 3.0
Diseases of genitourinary system (N00-N99) 9.5 8.2 7.7 8.7 10.4
Complications of pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium (O00-O99) 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1
Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P00-P96) 5.1 3.8 2.8 2.7 2.6
Congenital malformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) 5.9 4.6 4.1 3.6 3.0
Symptoms, signs, abnormal findings, ill-defined causes (R00-R99) 28.5 30.3 27.2 27.4 25.9
Violent deaths, total (V01-Y89) 55.7 46.1 42.5 42.4 40.3
Accidents (V01-X59, Y85-Y86) 38.4 31.1 29.0 30.1 28.7
Other violent deaths (X60-Y84, Y87-Y89) 17.3 15.0 13.5 12.2 11.5
Source: Statistics Norway. Dødsårsaksregisteret .

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