Table 1 
Top 10 leading causes of death (2019 to 2022) 

Top 10 leading causes of death (2019 to 2022)
  2019 2020 2021 2022 2019 2020 2021 2022
  number of deathsnumber of deathsnumber of deathsnumber of deaths rankrankrankrank
Total, all causes of death 285,301 308,412 311,640 334,081 ... ... ... ...
Malignant neoplasms 80,372 81,242 82,822 82,412 1 1 1 1
Diseases of heart 53,364 54,430 55,271 57,357 2 2 2 2
COVID-19 ... 15,890 14,466 19,716 ... 4 4 3
Accidents (unintentional injuries) 15,527 16,818 19,257 18,365 3 3 3 4
Cerebrovascular diseases 13,717 13,761 13,491 13,915 4 5 5 5
Chronic lower respiratory diseases 12,902 11,844 11,018 12,462 5 6 6 6
Diabetes mellitus 6,987 7,654 7,472 7,557 6 7 7 7
Influenza and pneumonia 6,945 6,037 4,115 5,985 7 8 10 8
Alzheimer's disease 6,181 5,788 5,471 5,413 8 9 8 9
Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis 3,708 4,199 4,617 4,530 11 10 9 10
Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis 3,770 4,065 3,978 4,234 10 12 11 11
Intentional self-harm (suicide) 4,581 4,152 3,769 3,593 9 11 12 13
Other ill-defined and unspecified causes of mortality 3,378 6,841 9,471 16,043 ... ... ... ...
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