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Mortality from CVD, cancer, diabetes or CRD between exact ages 30 and 70 (%)

Mortality from CVD, cancer, diabetes or CRD is the percent of 30-year-old-people who would die before their 70th birthday from any of cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, or chronic respiratory disease, assuming that s/he would experience current mortality rates at every age and s/he would not die from any other cause of death (e.g., injuries or HIV/AIDS).

World Bank code: SH.DYN.NCOM.ZS • Data available for 185 countries • Latest year: 2021

In , Kiribati led Mortality from CVD, cancer, diabetes or CRD between exact ages 30 and 70 (%) at 44.10.

The world median across 185 reporting countries was 18.80.

What this measures: Mortality from CVD, cancer, diabetes or CRD is the percent of 30-year-old-people who would die before their 70th birthday from any of cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, or chronic respiratory disease, assuming that s/he would experience current mortality rates at every age and s/he would not die from any other cause of death (e.g., injuries or HIV/AIDS).

How "Health & Population" indicators are measured

Health and population indicators come from national vital-registration systems, demographic and health surveys, and modeling by the UN Population Division and WHO. Mortality and morbidity estimates are often modeled rather than directly observed in lower-capacity statistical systems, which means some figures are interpolations between survey years. Life expectancy is a "period" measure based on current age-specific mortality, not a forecast of how long someone born today will actually live.

Distribution — 2021

Reporting
185 countries
Median
18.80
Mean
18.89
25th percentile
13.30
75th percentile
23.40
Range
6.90 – 44.10

World at a Glance — 2021

Every reporting country, grouped by region, shaded by value (quintile).

East Asia & PacificAustralia: 8.30AUBrunei Darussalam: 14.90BNCambodia: 22.60KHChina: 15.90CNFiji: 37.90FJIndonesia: 21.90IDJapan: 8.00JPKiribati: 44.10KIKorea, Dem. People's Rep.: 23.70KPKorea, Rep.: 6.90KRLao PDR: 26.50LAMalaysia: 19.90MYMicronesia, Fed. Sts.: 40.50FMMongolia: 26.30MNMyanmar: 24.00MMNew Zealand: 10.30NZPapua New Guinea: 28.50PGPhilippines: 31.90PHSamoa: 32.30WSSingapore: 10.30SGSolomon Islands: 40.60SBThailand: 14.50THTimor-Leste: 20.10TLTonga: 26.90TOVanuatu: 36.80VUViet Nam: 20.10VNEurope & Central AsiaAlbania: 10.00ALArmenia: 20.60AMAustria: 9.90ATAzerbaijan: 17.40AZBelarus: 23.80BYBelgium: 9.20BEBosnia and Herzegovina: 17.20BABulgaria: 25.60BGCroatia: 15.90HRCyprus: 8.50CYCzechia: 14.20CZDenmark: 10.70DKEstonia: 15.50EEFinland: 9.60FIFrance: 10.20FRGeorgia: 22.10GEGermany: 11.60DEGreece: 12.00GRHungary: 21.70HUIceland: 8.50ISIreland: 9.60IEItaly: 9.10ITKazakhstan: 21.20KZKyrgyz Republic: 18.80KGLatvia: 22.70LVLithuania: 19.80LTLuxembourg: 7.80LUMoldova: 24.70MDMontenegro: 18.00MENetherlands: 9.90NLNorth Macedonia: 19.60MKNorway: 7.80NOPoland: 17.00PLPortugal: 10.50PTRomania: 21.50RORussian Federation: 22.40RUSerbia: 20.70RSSlovak Republic: 16.60SKSlovenia: 11.60SISpain: 9.30ESSweden: 7.90SESwitzerland: 7.50CHTajikistan: 18.10TJTurkiye: 15.40TRTurkmenistan: 25.70TMUkraine: 24.80UAUnited Kingdom: 11.00GBUzbekistan: 24.60UZLatin America & CaribbeanAntigua and Barbuda: 12.10AGArgentina: 13.40ARBahamas, The: 20.40BSBarbados: 14.00BBBelize: 15.40BZBolivia: 19.90BOBrazil: 14.50BRChile: 9.40CLColombia: 10.30COCosta Rica: 9.90CRCuba: 17.60CUDominican Republic: 17.40DOEcuador: 13.20ECEl Salvador: 12.60SVGrenada: 17.10GDGuatemala: 14.60GTGuyana: 25.40GYHaiti: 31.60HTHonduras: 17.80HNJamaica: 20.20JMMexico: 16.30MXNicaragua: 12.60NIPanama: 10.90PAParaguay: 16.10PYPeru: 12.30PEPuerto Rico (US): 10.10PRSt. Lucia: 15.50LCSt. Vincent and the Grenadines: 23.60VCSuriname: 18.70SRTrinidad and Tobago: 20.30TTUruguay: 17.40UYVenezuela, RB: 18.70VEMiddle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & PakistanAfghanistan: 32.70AFAlgeria: 13.30DZBahrain: 14.80BHDjibouti: 20.60DJEgypt, Arab Rep.: 26.00EGIran, Islamic Rep.: 13.90IRIraq: 22.70IQIsrael: 7.60ILJordan: 11.60JOKuwait: 9.30KWLebanon: 11.90LBLibya: 19.80LYMalta: 9.80MTMorocco: 22.00MAOman: 14.60OMPakistan: 25.50PKQatar: 12.10QASaudi Arabia: 13.60SASyrian Arab Republic: 21.30SYTunisia: 13.00TNUnited Arab Emirates: 11.60AEWest Bank and Gaza: 18.30PSYemen, Rep.: 25.80YENorth AmericaCanada: 9.70CAUnited States: 13.70USSouth AsiaBangladesh: 18.10BDBhutan: 15.90BTIndia: 23.60INMaldives: 9.00MVNepal: 19.40NPSri Lanka: 13.90LKSub-Saharan AfricaAngola: 24.70AOBenin: 20.80BJBotswana: 19.00BWBurkina Faso: 23.40BFBurundi: 24.80BICabo Verde: 17.20CVCameroon: 24.30CMCentral African Republic: 30.80CFChad: 23.40TDComoros: 20.20KMCongo, Dem. Rep.: 25.10CDCongo, Rep.: 21.20CGCote d'Ivoire: 22.70CIEquatorial Guinea: 20.30GQEritrea: 27.30EREswatini: 32.30SZEthiopia: 16.80ETGabon: 18.10GAGambia, The: 21.80GMGhana: 22.20GHGuinea: 23.60GNGuinea-Bissau: 25.30GWKenya: 18.00KELesotho: 36.30LSLiberia: 22.00LRMadagascar: 25.90MGMalawi: 24.90MWMali: 23.00MLMauritania: 18.70MRMauritius: 21.70MUMozambique: 26.60MZNamibia: 23.10NANiger: 20.20NENigeria: 17.70NGRwanda: 20.00RWSao Tome and Principe: 19.50STSenegal: 21.40SNSeychelles: 15.60SCSierra Leone: 23.90SLSomalia, Fed. Rep.: 27.60SOSouth Africa: 22.70ZASouth Sudan: 22.40SSSudan: 21.20SDTanzania: 18.80TZTogo: 25.40TGUganda: 21.50UGZambia: 23.60ZMZimbabwe: 31.20ZW

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Highest Values — 2021

# Country Mortality from CVD, cancer, diabetes or CRD between exact ages 30 and 70 (%)
1 Kiribati East Asia & Pacific 44.10
2 Solomon Islands East Asia & Pacific 40.60
3 Micronesia, Fed. Sts. East Asia & Pacific 40.50
4 Fiji East Asia & Pacific 37.90
5 Vanuatu East Asia & Pacific 36.80
6 Lesotho Sub-Saharan Africa 36.30
7 Afghanistan Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan 32.70
8 Samoa East Asia & Pacific 32.30
9 Eswatini Sub-Saharan Africa 32.30
10 Philippines East Asia & Pacific 31.90

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Biggest Movers — Year over Year

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By Income Group — Average

Income group Countries Mean
High income 58 12.86
Upper middle income 50 18.87
Lower middle income 50 23.18
Low income 25 24.40
Not classified 2 17.75

By Region — Average

Region Countries Mean
East Asia & Pacific 26 23.60
Europe & Central Asia 48 15.58
Latin America & Caribbean 32 16.23
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan 23 17.03
North America 2 11.70
South Asia 6 16.65
Sub-Saharan Africa 48 22.88

Lowest Values — 2021

# Country Mortality from CVD, cancer, diabetes or CRD between exact ages 30 and 70 (%)
1 Korea, Rep. 6.90
2 Switzerland 7.50
3 Israel 7.60
4 Norway 7.80
5 Luxembourg 7.80
6 Sweden 7.90
7 Japan 8.00
8 Australia 8.30
9 Cyprus 8.50
10 Iceland 8.50
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Source: World Bank Open Data (SH.DYN.NCOM.ZS), CC BY 4.0. Rankings show countries with available data for 2021.