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Leading causes of death in Canada, 2005

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This publication lists statistical tables of ten leading causes of death in Canada for selected age groups by sex; ten leading causes of infant death; andten leading causes of death for provinces and territories by sex. Causes of death classified by the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) are ranked according to the number of deaths assigned to rankable causes.