Noncommunicable Diseases Data Portal

Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) – chief among them, cardiovascular diseases (heart disease and stroke), cancer, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases – cause nearly three-quarters of deaths in the world. Their drivers are social, environmental, commercial and genetic, and their presence is global. Every year 17 million people under the age of 70 die of NCDs, and 86% of them live in low- and middle-income countries.

Users can explore the data below by country, accessing detailed information on noncommunicable diseases and their key risk factors:

Noncommunicable Diseases & Key Risk Factors

Air Pollution

Cancer

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs)

Chronic respiratory diseases (CRDs)

Diabetes

Harmful alcohol use

Obesity / Unhealthy diet

Physical inactivity

Tobacco use

Global

Probability of premature mortality from NCDs (2019)

In this geography, some NCD deaths were included in a separate category called “other pandemic-related mortality” in 2020 and 2021 due to incomplete or low-quality vital registration data. Because this may have affected trends between 2019 to 2021, only data through 2019 are displayed here.

Total

18%

Males

22%

Females

14%

Probability of premature mortality from NCDs (2019)

Total

18%

Males

22%

Females

14%

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