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National Statistical Office
Table 4.1 Death Rate per 100,000 Population by Cause of Death: 2009-2012
Cause of Death 2009 2010 2011 2012
Cancer 88.3 91.2 95.2 98.5
Accidental Poisoning 55.6 51.6 52.8 51.6
Heart Disease 29.0 28.9 31.4 32.9
Higher Blood Pressure 24.7 31.4 35.8 37.4
Pneumonia and Other Lung Disease 22.9 25.7 26.3 26.1
Source: Public Health Statistics in 2009-2012, Office of the Permanent Secretary.
4.2 Illness
Consumption behavior is one, among the others, of the major causes of
population’s sickness, risk behaviors in consumption are such as, over consumption,
consumption of contaminated food, drinking and smoking etc.
The other causes are such as too much stress and no physical exercising,
with these reasons, people are easily get ill with various diseases. In the past 5 years
(2009-2013), proportion of people getting ill increased from 20.3% in 2009 to
21.1% in 2013, the proportions of both sexes getting ill increased from 15.3% to
19.0% and 19.5% to 23.0% for male and female respectively.
The number of people getting ill with cancer was increasing enormously
from 783.6 persons per 100,000 population in 2010 to 862.0 persons per 100,000
population in 2012, whereas Dengue and Malaria was declining slightly; for Dengue,
there were 289.7 persons per 100,000 population in 2010 fell to 188.8 per
100,000 population in 2012, for Malaria, there were 20.2 persons in 2010 and
14.9 persons per 100,000 population in 2012.