Explanatory Note Data on causes of death presented in this press release were obtained from the deaths registered, either timely or belatedly, at the appropriate Office of the City/Municipal Civil Registrar throughout the country and subsequently submitted for encoding to the Office of the Civil Registrar General through the Provincial Statistical Offices (PSOs) of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). The information presented includes deaths that occurred from January to December 2023 based on data files received and initially processed by the PSA - Civil Registration Service (CRS) from the PSOs as of 30 April 2024. Thus, the figures presented herein are still provisional and may differ from the final count. Deaths of Filipinos abroad are not yet included in this release, but Filipinos whose usual residence is abroad and foreign nationals with deaths occurring in the country during the reference period were included in this report. |
Ischaemic heart diseases, neoplasms, and cerebrovascular diseases lead the causes of death in the Philippines
The top three causes of death in the country from January to December of 2023 were ischaemic heart diseases, neoplasms, and cerebrovascular diseases. These were also the leading causes of death in the same period in 2022. From January to December of 2023, ischaemic heart diseases were responsible for the highest number of deaths with 118,936 cases or 18.9 percent of the total deaths in the country. On the other hand, neoplasms, came in second with 67,386 deaths (10.7% share). Cerebrovascular diseases were the third leading cause which accounted for 63,401 recorded cases (10.1% share) from January to December 2023. Deaths due to diabetes mellitus recorded 39,783 cases or 6.3 percent share, making it the fourth leading cause of death, while deaths due to pneumonia, which ranked fifth, recorded 38,637 cases or 6.1 percent share. (Figure 1 and Table 1)
CLAIRE DENNIS S. MAPA, PhD
Undersecretary
National Statistician and Civil Registrar General
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