Explanatory Note Data on causes of death presented in this press release were obtained from the timely and late registered deaths at the Office of the City/Municipal Civil Registrar nationwide; and submitted to the Office of the Civil Registrar General through the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) - Provincial Statistical Offices (PSOs). The information presented includes deaths that occurred from January to September 2024 based on data files received and initially processed by the PSA - Civil Registration Service (CRS) from the PSOs as of 31 January 2025. 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. |
Leading Causes of Death in the Philippines for 2024: Ischaemic heart diseases, neoplasms, and cerebrovascular diseases
The Philippine Statistics Authority reports that the top three causes of death in the country from January to September of 2024 were ischaemic heart diseases, neoplasms, and cerebrovascular diseases, consistent with the same period in 2023. Ischaemic heart diseases were the leading cause of death with 75,446 cases accounting for 19.4 percent of the total deaths nationwide. Neoplasms followed as the second leading cause with 42,870 deaths representing 11.0 percent of the total. Cerebrovascular diseases ranked third with 38,908 recorded cases constituting 10.0 percent of the total deaths. Pneumonia emerged as the fourth leading cause of death with 25,453 cases (6.5%), while diabetes mellitus ranked fifth with 24,469 deaths or 6.3 percent share. (Figure 1 and Table 1)
CLAIRE DENNIS S. MAPA, PhD
Undersecretary
National Statistician and Civil Registrar General
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