Norway Yearbook - 1996

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Death rates by cause of death. Per 100000 population
Cause of death (IC D-9) Norway 1991 Finland 1992 Sweden 1990 Iceland 1992
United Kingdorn
1992
France 1991
Total 1 051.7 988.8 1 111.6 658.4 1 093.5 919.6
'u
Cholera - 100 -
Typhoid fever 10.0 - - 10,0 10.0
Intestinal infectious diseases 105 1.0 10.2 108 0.4 1.2
Tuberculosis 10.4 1.8 0.5 11.5 0.8 1.6
Whooping cough - - '0.0 - 0.0 10.0
Meningococcal infection '0.3 10.1 '0.1 10.4 0.3 0.1
Tetanus 10.0 - 10.0 10.0
Septicaemia 2.7 1.2 2.7 '2.3 1.6 4.0
Smallpox - -
Measles -
- 10.0 10,0
Malaria 10.0 - 100 - 10.0 10,0
Other infectious and parasitic diseases 2.2 2.8 3.8 10.4 1.9 5.2
Malignant neoplasm of stomach 16.2 14.1 14.3 13.8 16.1 11.3
Malignant neoplasm of large intestine 22.1 10.6 19.2 '6.9 22.9 20.7
Malignant neoplasm of rectum 11.9 8.7 10.4 '3.1 10.9 7.0
Malignant neoplasm of trachea, bronchus
and lung 35.4 39.3 31.4 35.6 66.8 39.1
Malignant neoplasm of female breast 40.6 41,0 38.6 62.9 '44.0
Malignant neoplasm of 35,3
cervix uteri 8.3
' 7.1
37,7 333
Leukaemia 6.4 6.3 7,7
173 6.8 8.2
Other malignant neoplasm 117.5 102.3 135.1 80.4 127.8 138.3
Diabetes mellitus 12.8 11.4 17.9 11.9 14.8 11.1
Nutritional marasme 10.0 10.0 10,2 - 10.0 2.7
Other protein-calorie malnutrition 10.0 - 10.2 - 0.1 0.8
Anaemias 1.3 0.8 2.5 10,4 2.0 2.7
Meningitis 10,7 10.3 0.5 - 0.4 0.5
Acute rheumatic fever -
- 10.0 - '0.0 10,0
Chronic rheumatic fever 2.4 1.4 3.1 10,8 4.1 1.9
Hypertensive disease 9.1 8.5 6.0 15,0 6.1 10.6
Acute myocardial infarction 176.1 186.7 185.7 116.0 169.6 56.5
Other ischaemic heart diseases 78.0 94.8 116.0 60.9 117.9 30.3
Cerebrovascular disease 124.7 115.9 120.3 56.7 130.8 85.1
154
Atherosclerosis 9.4 8.4 29.1
6.3 2.6
Other diseases of the circulatory system 88.8 66.7 107.2 45.6 66.2 121.1
Pneumoni 69.4 46,1 51.1 52.1 54.4 24.6
Influenza 2.0 1.5 1.2 18,8 0.5 0.7
Bronchitis, emphysema and asthma 16.9 20.0 19.6 23.4 14.8 14.3
Ulcer of stomach and duodenum 5.7 7.5 6.3 11.1 8.2 3.3
Appendictis '0.3 10,2 10,3 - 0.2 0.3
Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis 4.5 11.6 7.6 12.3 6.2 17.0
Nephritis and nephrosis 4.2 2.2 5.2 '3.8 4.9 8.4
Hyperplasia of prostate
4
10.3 - 4.6 3.2
Abortion 1,216 1.20.8 1.2Q4
Direct complications of pregnancy, childbirth
and the puerperium 1.28,2 1.23Q 1.21,6 249 210,1
Indirect complications of pregnancy, childbirth
and the puerperium 1.21.5 - 1.21.0 1,213
Congenital anomalies 4.5 4.8 4.8 16.1 4.3 3.1
Birth trauma 1.26.6 1.275 227.4 1.221.7 215,7 1.208
Certain conditions orginatïng in the perinatal
period 2273.0 2230,3 21MO 1.2238.7 2315,4 2179,0
Signs, symptoms and ill-defined conditions. 42.4 3.8 17.0 77 9.8 53.8
Other diseases 97,3 97.3 102.5 45.6 146.6 126.5
177
Motor vehicle traffic accidents 7.5 11.3 8.7
8.1 16.5
Accidental falls 21.7 16.5 14.2 150 6.9 18.7
Otheraccidents 126 25.9 10.9 146 6.5 21.8
Suicide 15.8 28.8 17.2 110.7 8.0 20.2
Homicide 1.5 3.4 1.3 11.1 0.9 1.1
Other injury '0.6 4.1 6.1 11.5 3.9 4.5
tRates based on 30 or fewer deaths. 2Per 100 000 live births. 3Per 100 000 females of 15 years and over. 4Per 100 000 niales 50 years and
over
Source: United Nations. Demographic Yearbook 1993. New York 1995. More information: Division for Health Statistics.
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