2023 Causes of Deaths in the Philippines (Provisional as of 31 October 2023) | Philippine Statistics Authority

Release Date :

Friday, January 19, 2024

Reference Number :

2024-12

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 August 2023 based on data files received and initially processed by the PSA - Civil Registration Service (CRS) from the PSOs as of 31 October 2023. 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 August 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 August of 2023, ischaemic heart diseases were the leading cause of death with 76,901 cases or 19.1 percent of the total deaths in the country. On the other hand, neoplasms, came in second with 42,149 deaths (10.5% share). Cerebrovascular diseases were the third leading cause which accounted for 40,900 recorded cases (10.2% share) from January to August 2023. Deaths due to diabetes mellitus recorded 25,451 cases or 6.3 percent share, making it the fourth leading cause of death, while deaths due to pneumonia, which ranked fifth, recorded 23,755 cases or 5.9 percent share. (Figure 1 and Table 1)

Figure 1. All Causes of Mortality (Top 20), Philippines:
January to August, 2022 and 2023