Statistics Norway

Causes of death

2 Age- and sexstandardized rates (per 100 000 inhabitants).1 The whole country. 5 year groups 1987-20112 (Corrected 23 October 2012)
1987-1991 1992-1996 1997-2001 2002-2006 2007-2011
Deaths, total (A00-R99)  720.9  673.4  622.4  549.3  499.1
Infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99) 5.2 5.8 7.4 8.6 10.9
Neoplasms (C00-D48)  184.3  185.9  181.0  171.5  161.8
Diseases of the blood and bloodformin organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism.(D50-D89) 2.1 2.6 1.5 1.6 1.6
Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E90) 11.0 10.8 13.5 13.7 13.0
Mental and behavioural disorders (F00-F99) 14.8 16.9 19.3 18.2 20.7
Diseases of the nervous system and the sense organs (G00-H95) 13.7 13.5 16.6 18.6 20.4
Diseases of the circulatory system (I00-I99)  346.4  301.3  258.5  201.7  159.7
Diseases of the respiratory system (J00-J99) 66.7 66.7 56.2 50.9 48.5
Diseases of the digestive system (K00-K93) 23.3 20.3 20.7 18.5 16.6
Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue (L00-L99) 0.6 0.6 0.8 0.9 0.9
Diseases of musculoskeletal system / connective tissue (M00-M99) 4.0 3.9 4.1 3.4 3.0
Diseases of genitourinary system (N00-N99) 9.1 8.2 7.9 9.2 10.1
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 3.5 2.8 2.7 2.4
Congenital malformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99) 5.6 4.4 4.1 3.4 2.9
Symptoms, signs, abnormal findings, ill-defined causes (R00-R99) 29.0 29.0 28.0 26.5 26.6
Violent deaths, total (V01-Y89) 54.6 44.2 42.3 42.5 40.2
Accidents (V01-X59, Y85-Y86) 37.0 30.2 28.8 30.4 28.2
Other violent deaths (X60-Y84, Y87-Y89) 17.6 14.1 13.5 12.1 11.9
1  The WHO-standard for age- and sexstandardization has been used
2  The number of homicides in 2011 includes the deaths in the terrorist actions in Oslo and at Utøya 22 July 2011.

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