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Death statistic according to cause of death. Final 2023 and provisional semester 1/2024 17 December 2024

More than half of the deaths that occurred in Spain in the first half of 2024 were due to diseases of the circulatory system or tumors. Within the most frequent tumours, the ones that increased most were bronchial and lung cancers (2.5%). The one that decreased most was cancer of the colon (-6.3%).

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Deaths according to the most frequent cause of death. - Resultados definitivos 2023 y provisionales 1er semestre 2024
Indicator Note Total Men Women Annual variation. Total Annual variation. Men Annual variation. Women
Total deaths 436,124 220,742 215,382 -6.1 -5.8 -6.4
Ischaemic heart diseases 27,734 17,446 10,288 -4.6 -3.0 -7.2
Cerebrovascular diseases 23,428 10,481 12,947 -5.1 -3.3 -6.5
Bronchial and lung cancer 22,805 16,564 6,241 0.4 -1.1 4.6
Dementia 21,183 6,883 14,300 -3.2 -2.2 -3.7
Heart failure 18,954 7,721 11,233 -7.9 -5.6 -9.5
  • Annual percentage change from 2022 final data

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The Death statistics according to cause of death constitutes one of the most important sources of information in the field of healthcare. It is conducted following the criteria established by the WHO in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), which covers over 12,000 diseases.

Data on causes of death is collected in three questionnaires: Medical Death Certificate/Statistical Death Bulletin, Statistical Legal Death Bulletin and the Statistical Birth Bulletin, in addition to the information provided directly by the Institutes of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences .

These statistics offer information on mortality according to the underlying cause of death, distribution by sex, age, residence and the month of death. It also offers indicators which facilitate carrying out geographical comparisons and measuring premature mortality: standardised rates of mortality and potential years of lost life. Since 2012, the education level variable has been included in the statistics on deaths.

For the first time, in the publication of 2016 deaths, tables that interrelate the multiple causes and the underlying cause are presented.