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Ministry of Health
Statistics

Principal Causes of Death

6 October 2026

Principal Causes of Deaths



2023

2024

2025

Total No. of Deaths

26,888

26,442

26,499

% of Total Deaths




1.

Cancer
[ ICD10: C00-C97 ]

 24.6

26.5

26.6

2.

Pneumonia
[ ICD10: J12-J18 ]

23.5

23.0

22.9

3.

Ischaemic heart diseases
[ ICD10: I20-I25 ]

 19.7

19.6

21.2

4.

Cerebrovascular diseases (including stroke)
[ ICD10: I60-I69 ]

 5.6

5.6

5.6

5.

Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome & nephrosis
[ ICD10: N00-N07, N17-N19, N25-N27]

3.1

3.0

3.3

6.

Other heart diseases
[ ICD10: I00-I09, I26-I51]

2.4

2.4

2.4

7.

External causes of morbidity and mortality
[ ICD10 : V01-Y89 ]

2.3

2.4

2.0

8.

Hypertensive diseases (including hypertensive heart disease)
[ ICD10: I10-I15 ]

3.1

3.2

2.0

9.

Urinary tract infection
[ ICD10: N39.0]

2.0

2.0

1.8

10.

Chronic obstructive lung diseases
[ ICD10: E10-E14 ]

1.2 

1.9

0.9

Notes:
1 The Mortality Tabulation List of the International Classification of Diseases - Tenth Revision has replaced the Ninth Revision as the adopted code set for the derivation of causes of death w.e.f Year 2012.
2 For data prior to Year 2012, refer to Downloads
3 Refers to the top 10 principal causes of death only.

Downloads

Principal Causes of Death (opens in new tab)

Total deaths by broad causes (opens in new tab)