Statistics Norway

Causes of death

19 Deaths of underlying cause of death, by place of death. Per cent. 20081
ICD-10. Cause of death Deaths, total Place of death
Total Abroad Somatic hospitals Psychiatric hospitals Social care institutions Other healthinstitutions Home and other place outside healthinstitutions Unknown
Total (A00-Y89) 41 716  100 2 37 0 42 1 17 2
                   
Infectious and parasitic diseases(A00-B99)  914  100 0 55 0 39 0 6 0
                   
Malignant neoplasm (C00-C97) 10 632  100 0 48 0 39 1 12 1
                   
Drug dependence, toxicomania(F11-F16,F18-F19) 19  100 - 42 0 5 - 47 5
                   
Ischaemic heart diseases(I20-I25) 5 636  100 0 39 0 31 1 27 2
                   
Cerebrovascular diseases (I60-I69) 3 570  100 0 38 0 54 0 7 1
                   
Influenza(J10-J11) 15  100 - 7 - 53 - 40 -
                   
Pneumonia (J12-J18) 1 641  100 0 33 - 60 0 6 1
                   
Asthma (J45-J46)  113  100 - 12 - 37 - 47 4
                   
Rest chronic lower respiratory diseases (Rest J40-J47) 1 990  100 0 47 0 34 0 18 1
                   
Chronic liver disease K70,K73-K74)  204  100 - 61 - 22 - 15 2
                   
Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period(P00-P96) 92  100 1 96 - 0 1 1 1
                   
Congenital malformations and chromosomal abnormalities (Q00-Q99)  133  100 2 63 - 14 2 20 -
                   
Sudden infant death syndrome (R95) 15  100 13 - - - - 80 7
                   
Deaths from other diseases (Rest A00-R99) 14 287  100 5 28 0 49 0 17 2
                   
Transport accidents (V01-V99,Y85)  304  100 1 25 0 0 - 73 1
                   
Accidental falls(W00-W19)  389  100 0 59 - 21 0 18 2
                   
Exposure to smoke, fire and flames(X00-X09) 68  100 - 22 - 2 2 60 15
                   
Accidental poisoning (X40-X49)  344  100 - 11 0 1 0 69 18
                   
Suicide and intentional self-harm(X60-X84,Y87.0)  505  100 0 8 1 1 0 75 14
                   
Homicide, assault(X85-Y09,Y87.1) 27  100 4 15 - - - 63 19
                   
Other violent deaths (Rest V01-Y89)  818  100 1 40 - 41 1 16 2
1  Following recommadations from WHO all acute intoxication deaths (F10-F19 with fourth digit 0) have been moved from chapter V to chapter XX in ICD-10. For the same reason many pneumonia deaths have been coded differently than in earlier years, cfr. DS 30/3-05, Causes of Death 2003.

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