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

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.FE.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, female (%) at 37.80.

The world median across 185 reporting countries was 15.80.

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
15.80
Mean
16.42
25th percentile
10.90
75th percentile
21.30
Range
4.30 – 37.80

World at a Glance — 2021

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

East Asia & PacificAustralia: 6.60AUBrunei Darussalam: 13.00BNCambodia: 19.80KHChina: 11.60CNFiji: 35.10FJIndonesia: 21.00IDJapan: 5.40JPKiribati: 37.80KIKorea, Dem. People's Rep.: 19.00KPKorea, Rep.: 4.30KRLao PDR: 23.10LAMalaysia: 16.00MYMicronesia, Fed. Sts.: 35.10FMMongolia: 19.50MNMyanmar: 20.80MMNew Zealand: 8.30NZPapua New Guinea: 28.60PGPhilippines: 25.30PHSamoa: 30.30WSSingapore: 7.10SGSolomon Islands: 36.00SBThailand: 11.40THTimor-Leste: 19.50TLTonga: 23.10TOVanuatu: 29.90VUViet Nam: 13.10VNEurope & Central AsiaAlbania: 7.30ALArmenia: 13.20AMAustria: 7.40ATAzerbaijan: 15.10AZBelarus: 13.00BYBelgium: 7.40BEBosnia and Herzegovina: 13.20BABulgaria: 17.40BGCroatia: 10.80HRCyprus: 5.80CYCzechia: 9.80CZDenmark: 8.90DKEstonia: 9.30EEFinland: 6.70FIFrance: 7.30FRGeorgia: 12.80GEGermany: 8.50DEGreece: 7.90GRHungary: 15.00HUIceland: 7.50ISIreland: 7.90IEItaly: 7.10ITKazakhstan: 15.40KZKyrgyz Republic: 13.20KGLatvia: 13.30LVLithuania: 11.60LTLuxembourg: 5.80LUMoldova: 16.80MDMontenegro: 13.40MENetherlands: 8.80NLNorth Macedonia: 15.00MKNorway: 6.60NOPoland: 11.20PLPortugal: 6.60PTRomania: 14.50RORussian Federation: 14.70RUSerbia: 15.40RSSlovak Republic: 10.80SKSlovenia: 8.10SISpain: 6.20ESSweden: 6.60SESwitzerland: 5.70CHTajikistan: 17.40TJTurkiye: 10.10TRTurkmenistan: 21.40TMUkraine: 16.50UAUnited Kingdom: 9.10GBUzbekistan: 21.20UZLatin America & CaribbeanAntigua and Barbuda: 11.60AGArgentina: 10.90ARBahamas, The: 17.90BSBarbados: 12.60BBBelize: 16.80BZBolivia: 18.90BOBrazil: 12.00BRChile: 7.60CLColombia: 9.10COCosta Rica: 8.60CRCuba: 13.90CUDominican Republic: 14.40DOEcuador: 11.70ECEl Salvador: 10.80SVGrenada: 16.30GDGuatemala: 16.40GTGuyana: 23.90GYHaiti: 33.60HTHonduras: 17.10HNJamaica: 18.30JMMexico: 13.80MXNicaragua: 12.00NIPanama: 9.40PAParaguay: 13.80PYPeru: 12.80PEPuerto Rico (US): 7.40PRSt. Lucia: 15.70LCSt. Vincent and the Grenadines: 20.70VCSuriname: 18.80SRTrinidad and Tobago: 17.10TTUruguay: 14.00UYVenezuela, RB: 15.20VEMiddle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & PakistanAfghanistan: 33.50AFAlgeria: 12.80DZBahrain: 15.50BHDjibouti: 19.30DJEgypt, Arab Rep.: 21.40EGIran, Islamic Rep.: 12.70IRIraq: 19.60IQIsrael: 6.40ILJordan: 10.70JOKuwait: 5.00KWLebanon: 9.00LBLibya: 18.20LYMalta: 7.50MTMorocco: 21.30MAOman: 13.30OMPakistan: 25.00PKQatar: 12.50QASaudi Arabia: 13.30SASyrian Arab Republic: 17.80SYTunisia: 11.30TNUnited Arab Emirates: 9.30AEWest Bank and Gaza: 14.50PSYemen, Rep.: 23.80YENorth AmericaCanada: 7.70CAUnited States: 10.90USSouth AsiaBangladesh: 16.30BDBhutan: 14.70BTIndia: 23.00INMaldives: 6.80MVNepal: 19.30NPSri Lanka: 10.80LKSub-Saharan AfricaAngola: 22.70AOBenin: 19.00BJBotswana: 20.30BWBurkina Faso: 21.30BFBurundi: 23.50BICabo Verde: 11.90CVCameroon: 23.40CMCentral African Republic: 26.90CFChad: 23.00TDComoros: 20.50KMCongo, Dem. Rep.: 23.90CDCongo, Rep.: 21.00CGCote d'Ivoire: 21.30CIEquatorial Guinea: 19.90GQEritrea: 25.60EREswatini: 28.10SZEthiopia: 17.20ETGabon: 15.80GAGambia, The: 21.20GMGhana: 19.70GHGuinea: 24.20GNGuinea-Bissau: 23.30GWKenya: 17.80KELesotho: 33.80LSLiberia: 23.40LRMadagascar: 25.80MGMalawi: 22.80MWMali: 25.40MLMauritania: 20.90MRMauritius: 16.20MUMozambique: 22.30MZNamibia: 22.10NANiger: 21.60NENigeria: 16.90NGRwanda: 18.50RWSao Tome and Principe: 19.00STSenegal: 21.30SNSeychelles: 13.30SCSierra Leone: 24.70SLSomalia, Fed. Rep.: 27.10SOSouth Africa: 24.70ZASouth Sudan: 19.70SSSudan: 22.40SDTanzania: 17.70TZTogo: 22.90TGUganda: 18.60UGZambia: 21.60ZMZimbabwe: 32.10ZW

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Highest Values — 2021

# Country Mortality from CVD, cancer, diabetes or CRD between exact ages 30 and 70, female (%)
1 Kiribati East Asia & Pacific 37.80
2 Solomon Islands East Asia & Pacific 36.00
3 Micronesia, Fed. Sts. East Asia & Pacific 35.10
4 Fiji East Asia & Pacific 35.10
5 Lesotho Sub-Saharan Africa 33.80
6 Haiti Latin America & Caribbean 33.60
7 Afghanistan Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan 33.50
8 Zimbabwe Sub-Saharan Africa 32.10
9 Samoa East Asia & Pacific 30.30
10 Vanuatu East Asia & Pacific 29.90

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Biggest Movers — Year over Year

Largest increases

Largest decreases

By Income Group — Average

Income group Countries Mean
High income 58 9.89
Upper middle income 50 15.83
Lower middle income 50 21.24
Low income 25 23.12
Not classified 2 16.20

By Region — Average

Region Countries Mean
East Asia & Pacific 26 20.03
Europe & Central Asia 48 11.14
Latin America & Caribbean 32 14.78
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan 23 15.38
North America 2 9.30
South Asia 6 15.15
Sub-Saharan Africa 48 21.80

Lowest Values — 2021

# Country Mortality from CVD, cancer, diabetes or CRD between exact ages 30 and 70, female (%)
1 Korea, Rep. 4.30
2 Kuwait 5.00
3 Japan 5.40
4 Switzerland 5.70
5 Luxembourg 5.80
6 Cyprus 5.80
7 Spain 6.20
8 Israel 6.40
9 Sweden 6.60
10 Norway 6.60
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Source: World Bank Open Data (SH.DYN.NCOM.FE.ZS), CC BY 4.0. Rankings show countries with available data for 2021.