The world's top 100 causes of death
- and how to avoid them
AIDS • Alcohol • Anaemia • Anaphylactic shock • Animal attack • Anthrax • Aortic aneurysm • Asphyxiation • Asthma • Bleeding diseases • Boredom • Botulism • Brain death • Brain tumour • Broken heart syndrome • Cancer • Carbon monoxide poisoning • Chagas' disease • Congenital abnormalities • Constipation • Dangerous sports
Death sentence • Dementia • Depression • Diabetes • Diarrhoeal infections • Diphtheria • Domestic accidents • Drought • Drowning
Electrocution • Epilepsy • Euthanasia • Falls • Famine • Fire and smoke inhalation • Flesh-eating disease and superbugs • Genetic conditions • Gunshot wound • Hanging • Heart attack • Heart failure
Heat stroke • Hepatitis • Homicide • Hypothermia • latrogenesis • Influenza • Jugular constriction • Kidney failure • Land transport accidents • Leishmaniasis • Leprosy • Leukaemia • Listeriosis
Liver failure • Lymphoma • Mad cow disease • Malaria • Measles • Meningitis • Meteorite strike • Neurodegenerative disease • Obesity
Occupational hazards • Old. age • Pancreatitis • Peritonitis • Plague • Plane crash • Plant attack • Pneumonia • Poisoning
Poliomyelitis • Pregnancy and birth • Pulmonary embolism • Rabies • Radiation poisoning • Respiratory failure • Sepsis • Shock
Sleeping sickness • Smoking • Snoring • Stroke • Substance abuse • Sudden arrhythmic death syndrome • Suicide • Surgery • Syphilis
Tetanus • Thunderbolt and other forces of nature • Tropical viral diseases • Tropical worms • Tuberculosis • Umbrellas • Valvular heart disease • War • Whooping cough • Zzzzzz - dying in your sleep