LEADING CAUSES OF DEATH 1961, 1969 AND 1979 (RANKING ACCORDING TO 1961)
Number of Deaths
Percentage of Deaths from all Causes
Rate per 100,000 population
Causes of Death
1961
1969
1979
1961
1969
1979
1961
1969
1979
TABLE 15
All causes
18,738
18,730 26,179
100.0
100.0
100.0
591.5
484.7
534.3
1.
Fneumonia, all forms
2,665
1,601
2,443
14.2
8.5
9.3
84.1
41.4
49.9
2. Malignant neoplasms
2,280
3,839
6,203
12.2
20.5
23.7
72.0
99.4
126.6
Tuberculosis, all forms
1,907
1.470
523
10.2
7.8
2.0
60.2
38.0
10.7
4.
Heart diseases, including hypertensive diseases
1,866
2.351
4.310
9.9
12.6
16.5
58.9
60.8
88.0
5. Cerebrovascular diseases
1,401
1,812
3.245
7.5
9.7
12.4
44.2
46.9
66.2
All other causes
8,619
7,657
9,455
46.0
40.9
36.1
272.1
198.2
193.0
All ages
Rate per 100,000 population
1969
1979
TABLE 15 (Cont'd)
Number of Deaths
Percentage of Deaths from all Causes
Causes of Death
1961
1969
1979
1961
1969
1979
1961
0
years
All cause=
4,098
1,731
1,092
100.0
100.0
100.0
1.
Fneumonia, all forms
1,166
340
137
26.4
19.6
12.5
3.840.7
1,092.8
2,207.9
1,295.4
433.7
162.5
2. Immaturity, unqualified
1,142
525
95
27.9
30.3
8.7
1,070.3
669.6
112.7
3.
Gastroenteritis, colitis and other diarrhoeal diseases
627
104
32
15.3
6.0
2.9
587.6
132.7
38.0
4. Congenital anomalies
157
264
277
3.8
15.3
25.4
147.1
336.7
328.6
5.
Anoxic and hypoxic
142
121
316
3.5
7.0
28.9
133.1
154.3
374.9
conditions not elsewhere classified
All other causes
864
: 377
235
21.1
21.8
21.5
809.8
480.9
278.8
4 years
ן
All causes
1,805
341
328
100.0
100.0
100.0
427.5
93.5
101.1
1.
Fneumonia, all forms
603
124
110
33.4
36.4
33.5
142.8
34.0
33.9
2.
Measles
342
16
28
19.0
4.7
8.5
81.0
4.4
8.6
3. Gastroenteritis, colities
201
18
12
11.1
5.3
3.7
47.6
4.9
3.7
and other diarrhoeal
diseases
4.
Tuberculosis, all forms
169
10
9.4
2.9
1.2
40.0
2.7
1.2
5. Injury and Poisoning
107
47
69
.5.9
13.8
21.0
25.3
12.9
21.3
All other causes
383
126
105
21.2
37.0
32.0
90.7
34.6
32.4
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