Written by Kinkini Gupta | Published : August 10, 2024 9:58 PM IST
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has recently published a report on 7th of August stating the tops 10 causes of global deaths that had occurred in 2024. As per WHO, 39 million global deaths in 2021 were attributed to these following causes.
The top cause was Ischaemic Heart Disease. This in 2021 had caused about 13 percent of global deaths as per WHO.
The COVID-19 pandemic which began in 2021 alone had caused the deaths of 8.8 million people in 2021. The data from 2022 and 2023 due to covid-19 have not been concluded in this. 2022 however saw a higher number of deaths cases.
Brain stroke caused about 10 percent of the global deaths in the year 2021, as per WHO data.
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) caused about 5 percent of the global deaths in the year 2021, as per WHO.
Aside from COVID-19, lover respiratory disease is one of the fastest communicable disease which caused about 2.5 million lives in 2021. However, WHO says that the number is lesser than 2000.
Trachea, bronchus and lung cancers deaths have increased in the year 2021 as compared to 2000, says WHO. It caused 1.9 million deaths worldwide.
According to WHO, Alzheimer's disease and other dementia's cause 1.8 million deaths in 2021.
Diabetes mellitus has seen an exponential rise since 2000 and WHO reports that there has been a 95 percent rise in deaths due to this disease.
Between the year 2000 and 2021, deaths caused by kidney diseases have increased by 95 percent according to WHO.
Last but not the least, Tuberculosis has been termed as the tenth disease that has caused deaths on a global level.
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