Latvia - Cause of death

Cause of death, by communicable diseases and maternal, prenatal and nutrition conditions (% of total)

Definition: Cause of death refers to the share of all deaths for all ages by underlying causes. Communicable diseases and maternal, prenatal and nutrition conditions include infectious and parasitic diseases, respiratory infections, and nutritional deficiencies such as underweight and stunting.

Source: Derived based on the data from WHO's Global Health Estimates.

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Year Value
2000 3.01
2010 2.39
2015 2.66
2019 3.04

Cause of death, by injury (% of total)

Definition: Cause of death refers to the share of all deaths for all ages by underlying causes. Injuries include unintentional and intentional injuries.

Source: Derived based on the data from WHO's Global Health Estimates.

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Year Value
2000 10.80
2010 6.54
2015 5.65
2019 4.97

Cause of death, by non-communicable diseases (% of total)

Definition: Cause of death refers to the share of all deaths for all ages by underlying causes. Non-communicable diseases include cancer, diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular diseases, digestive diseases, skin diseases, musculoskeletal diseases, and congenital anomalies.

Source: Derived based on the data from WHO's Global Health Estimates.

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Year Value
2000 86.19
2010 91.06
2015 91.69
2019 91.99

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

Mortality from CVD, cancer, diabetes or CRD between exact ages 30 and 70, female (%) in Latvia was 13.50 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 19 years was 18.80 in 2001, while its lowest value was 13.50 in 2019.

Definition: 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).

Source: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory Data Repository (http://apps.who.int/ghodata/).

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Year Value
2000 17.90
2001 18.80
2002 18.40
2003 18.50
2004 17.90
2005 17.30
2006 18.50
2007 17.70
2008 16.80
2009 16.30
2010 16.60
2011 16.00
2012 15.00
2013 14.50
2014 14.20
2015 13.90
2016 13.60
2017 13.80
2018 14.10
2019 13.50

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

Mortality from CVD, cancer, diabetes or CRD between exact ages 30 and 70, male (%) in Latvia was 31.20 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 19 years was 41.60 in 2005, while its lowest value was 31.20 in 2019.

Definition: 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).

Source: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory Data Repository (http://apps.who.int/ghodata/).

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Year Value
2000 40.00
2001 41.30
2002 41.30
2003 40.00
2004 40.40
2005 41.60
2006 41.50
2007 41.40
2008 39.60
2009 37.80
2010 37.50
2011 36.30
2012 35.10
2013 34.30
2014 34.00
2015 31.90
2016 32.10
2017 32.50
2018 31.80
2019 31.20

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

Mortality from CVD, cancer, diabetes or CRD between exact ages 30 and 70 (%) in Latvia was 21.60 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 19 years was 29.10 in 2006, while its lowest value was 21.60 in 2019.

Definition: 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).

Source: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory Data Repository (http://apps.who.int/ghodata/).

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Year Value
2000 27.90
2001 29.10
2002 28.90
2003 28.20
2004 28.10
2005 28.40
2006 29.10
2007 28.60
2008 27.20
2009 26.00
2010 26.00
2011 25.20
2012 24.10
2013 23.50
2014 23.20
2015 22.00
2016 22.00
2017 22.30
2018 22.20
2019 21.60

Mortality rate attributed to household and ambient air pollution, age-standardized, female (per 100,000 female population)

Definition: Mortality rate attributed to household and ambient air pollution is the number of deaths attributable to the joint effects of household and ambient air pollution in a year per 100,000 population. The rates are age-standardized. Following diseases are taken into account: acute respiratory infections (estimated for all ages); cerebrovascular diseases in adults (estimated above 25 years); ischaemic heart diseases in adults (estimated above 25 years); chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in adults (estimated above 25 years); and lung cancer in adults (estimated above 25 years).

Source: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory Data Repository (http://apps.who.int/ghodata/).

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Year Value
2016 28.00

Mortality rate attributed to household and ambient air pollution, age-standardized, male (per 100,000 male population)

Definition: Mortality rate attributed to household and ambient air pollution is the number of deaths attributable to the joint effects of household and ambient air pollution in a year per 100,000 population. The rates are age-standardized. Following diseases are taken into account: acute respiratory infections (estimated for all ages); cerebrovascular diseases in adults (estimated above 25 years); ischaemic heart diseases in adults (estimated above 25 years); chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in adults (estimated above 25 years); and lung cancer in adults (estimated above 25 years).

Source: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory Data Repository (http://apps.who.int/ghodata/).

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Year Value
2016 60.00

Mortality rate attributed to household and ambient air pollution, age-standardized (per 100,000 population)

Definition: Mortality rate attributed to household and ambient air pollution is the number of deaths attributable to the joint effects of household and ambient air pollution in a year per 100,000 population. The rates are age-standardized. Following diseases are taken into account: acute respiratory infections (estimated for all ages); cerebrovascular diseases in adults (estimated above 25 years); ischaemic heart diseases in adults (estimated above 25 years); chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in adults (estimated above 25 years); and lung cancer in adults (estimated above 25 years).

Source: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory Data Repository (http://apps.who.int/ghodata/).

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Year Value
2016 41.30

Mortality rate attributed to unintentional poisoning (per 100,000 population)

The value for Mortality rate attributed to unintentional poisoning (per 100,000 population) in Latvia was 1.20 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 19 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 6.30 in 2000 and a minimum value of 0.80 in 2015.

Definition: Mortality rate attributed to unintentional poisonings is the number of deaths from unintentional poisonings in a year per 100,000 population. Unintentional poisoning can be caused by household chemicals, pesticides, kerosene, carbon monoxide and medicines, or can be the result of environmental contamination or occupational chemical exposure.

Source: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory Data Repository (http://apps.who.int/ghodata/).

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Year Value
2000 6.30
2001 5.20
2002 5.60
2003 5.00
2004 4.00
2005 5.90
2006 4.50
2007 4.70
2008 3.50
2009 3.70
2010 2.30
2011 1.20
2012 1.80
2013 1.00
2014 1.40
2015 0.80
2016 1.40
2017 1.30
2018 1.10
2019 1.20

Mortality rate attributed to unintentional poisoning, female (per 100,000 female population)

The value for Mortality rate attributed to unintentional poisoning, female (per 100,000 female population) in Latvia was 0.50 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 19 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 3.10 in 2000 and a minimum value of 0.30 in 2015.

Definition: Mortality rate attributed to unintentional poisonings is the number of female deaths from unintentional poisonings in a year per 100,000 female population. Unintentional poisoning can be caused by household chemicals, pesticides, kerosene, carbon monoxide and medicines, or can be the result of environmental contamination or occupational chemical exposure.

Source: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory Data Repository (http://apps.who.int/ghodata/).

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Year Value
2000 3.10
2001 2.40
2002 2.80
2003 2.00
2004 2.30
2005 3.00
2006 1.60
2007 2.60
2008 2.00
2009 2.00
2010 1.00
2011 0.60
2012 0.80
2013 0.50
2014 0.80
2015 0.30
2016 0.50
2017 0.60
2018 0.40
2019 0.50

Mortality rate attributed to unintentional poisoning, male (per 100,000 male population)

The value for Mortality rate attributed to unintentional poisoning, male (per 100,000 male population) in Latvia was 2.10 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 19 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 10.10 in 2000 and a minimum value of 1.50 in 2013.

Definition: Mortality rate attributed to unintentional poisonings is the number of male deaths from unintentional poisonings in a year per 100,000 male population. Unintentional poisoning can be caused by household chemicals, pesticides, kerosene, carbon monoxide and medicines, or can be the result of environmental contamination or occupational chemical exposure.

Source: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory Data Repository (http://apps.who.int/ghodata/).

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Year Value
2000 10.10
2001 8.40
2002 9.00
2003 8.50
2004 5.90
2005 9.40
2006 8.00
2007 7.20
2008 5.20
2009 5.80
2010 3.80
2011 2.00
2012 3.00
2013 1.50
2014 2.10
2015 1.50
2016 2.40
2017 2.10
2018 1.90
2019 2.10

Suicide mortality rate, female (per 100,000 female population)

The value for Suicide mortality rate, female (per 100,000 female population) in Latvia was 7.00 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 19 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 12.80 in 2002 and a minimum value of 4.30 in 2018.

Definition: Suicide mortality rate is the number of suicide deaths in a year per 100,000 population. Crude suicide rate (not age-adjusted).

Source: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory Data Repository (http://apps.who.int/ghodata/).

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Year Value
2000 12.80
2001 11.50
2002 12.80
2003 11.00
2004 9.50
2005 10.20
2006 7.10
2007 8.10
2008 9.40
2009 9.20
2010 5.90
2011 7.20
2012 7.30
2013 6.20
2014 7.10
2015 8.40
2016 8.20
2017 8.30
2018 4.30
2019 7.00

Suicide mortality rate, male (per 100,000 male population)

The value for Suicide mortality rate, male (per 100,000 male population) in Latvia was 35.50 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 19 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 60.40 in 2000 and a minimum value of 34.30 in 2018.

Definition: Suicide mortality rate is the number of suicide deaths in a year per 100,000 population. Crude suicide rate (not age-adjusted).

Source: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory Data Repository (http://apps.who.int/ghodata/).

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Year Value
2000 60.40
2001 56.50
2002 53.60
2003 50.30
2004 47.20
2005 45.90
2006 42.20
2007 36.10
2008 46.60
2009 46.60
2010 42.10
2011 41.00
2012 42.80
2013 37.70
2014 36.90
2015 37.20
2016 36.70
2017 36.90
2018 34.30
2019 35.50

Suicide mortality rate (per 100,000 population)

The value for Suicide mortality rate (per 100,000 population) in Latvia was 20.10 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 19 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 34.70 in 2000 and a minimum value of 18.10 in 2018.

Definition: Suicide mortality rate is the number of suicide deaths in a year per 100,000 population. Crude suicide rate (not age-adjusted).

Source: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory Data Repository (http://apps.who.int/ghodata/).

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Year Value
2000 34.70
2001 32.20
2002 31.50
2003 29.10
2004 26.80
2005 26.50
2006 23.20
2007 20.90
2008 26.40
2009 26.30
2010 22.50
2011 22.70
2012 23.50
2013 20.60
2014 20.70
2015 21.60
2016 21.30
2017 21.40
2018 18.10
2019 20.10

Mortality caused by road traffic injury (per 100,000 people)

The value for Mortality caused by road traffic injury (per 100,000 people) in Latvia was 8.10 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 19 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 29.20 in 2000 and a minimum value of 8.10 in 2017.

Definition: Mortality caused by road traffic injury is estimated road traffic fatal injury deaths per 100,000 population.

Source: World Health Organization, Global Status Report on Road Safety 2018 through Global Health Observatory data repository.

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Year Value
2000 29.20
2001 25.90
2002 25.80
2003 24.60
2004 23.50
2005 21.40
2006 20.00
2007 20.10
2008 18.50
2009 12.30
2010 11.80
2011 9.00
2012 10.10
2013 9.90
2014 12.40
2015 11.20
2016 9.30
2017 8.10
2018 9.10
2019 8.10

Mortality rate attributed to unsafe water, unsafe sanitation and lack of hygiene (per 100,000 population)

Definition: Mortality rate attributed to unsafe water, unsafe sanitation and lack of hygiene is deaths attributable to unsafe water, sanitation and hygiene focusing on inadequate WASH services per 100,000 population. Death rates are calculated by dividing the number of deaths by the total population. In this estimate, only the impact of diarrhoeal diseases, intestinal nematode infections, and protein-energy malnutrition are taken into account.

Source: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory Data Repository (http://apps.who.int/ghodata/).

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Year Value
2016 0.100

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Risk factors