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  1. Jan 31, 2022 · In the United States, the top three causes of death in 2020 were heart disease, cancer, and COVID-19. Accidents and stroke round out the country’s top five causes of death that year. And...

  2. Nine of the 10 leading causes of death in 2020 remained the same as in 2019, although 5 causes switched rank; heart disease and cancer remained the top 2 leading causes, and COVID-19 became the third leading cause of death in 2020.

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  3. Results—In 2020, many of the 10 leading causes of death changed rank order due to the emergence of COVID-19 as a leading cause of death in the United States. The 10 leading causes of death in 2020 were, in rank order: Diseases of heart; Malignant neoplasms; COVID-19; Accidents (unintentional

  4. The Table also presents leading causes of death in the US for the years 2015 to 2020. 4 According to provisional data, in 2020, there were notable changes in the number and ranking of deaths compared with 2019. 5 COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in 2020, with an estimated 345 323 deaths, and was largely responsible for the ...

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  5. Leading Causes of Death. Print. Data are for the U.S. Number of deaths for leading causes of death. Heart disease: 702,880. Cancer: 608,371. Accidents (unintentional injuries): 227,039. COVID-19: 186,552. Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 165,393. Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 147,382. Alzheimer’s disease: 120,122. Diabetes: 101,209.

  6. Globally, non-communicable diseases are the most common causes of death. The chart shows what people died from globally, in 2019. Each box represents one cause, and its size is proportional to the number of deaths it caused. The most common causes of death globally — shown in blue — were from ‘non-communicable diseases’.

  7. Dec 9, 2020 · The estimates released in 2020 report on trends for more than 160 diseases and injuries annually from 2000 to 2019. Fact sheet on the 10 leading causes of death. In 2019, the top 10 causes of death accounted for 55% of the 55.4 million deaths worldwide.

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