How Will You Die? Top 20 Leading Causes of Death in America

wie 475,000 445,000 -450,000 -425,000 Ever wondered how you will die? This chart identifies -400,000 the top 20 ways Americans die each year. If you're an -375,000 - 350,000 American, there's an 82% chance you'll die from one of 325,000 -300,000 these top twenty. -275,000 -250,000 21.4 % -225,000 -200,000 What do the numbers mean? 172,000 - 175,000 Small blue numbers above bars: rough number of people that die in America each year % White percentages inside upper bars: percent of total caused deaths in a year Large green numbers inside purple boxes: rank of causer of death per 100,000 people (age-adjusted) # White numbers inside lower bars: world rank in caused deaths per year 165,000 146,000 -150,000 130,000 - 125,000 - 100,000 8.30 75,000 7.05 7.95 62,000 62,000 6.29 % -75,000 % 57,000 51,000 47,000 % 45,000 3.62 - 50,000 34,000 34,000 35,000 2.45 2.77 35,000 2.99 3.01 30,000 29,000 26,000 2.17 2.28 19,000 0.92 % 1.24 1.63 1.62 1.44 1.72 1.9 1.70 % % -25,000 % % % % % % % Heart Influenza & Pneumonia Hypertension Heart Alzheimer's/ Injuries (Non-Auto) Violence Endocrine Liver Poisonings Kidney Disease Pancreas Suicide Colon Auto Diabetes Breast Stroke Lung Disease Lung Disease (Inflammatory) Disorders Disease Cancer Cancers Accidents Cancer Dementia Cancer Disease (Coronary) 18 16 8 13 | 12 #168 14 4 19 #164 20 17 15 11 10 7. 3 180 #152 #186 #135 170 #123 #138 160 #131 150 #107 #92 #88 #91 #90 140 130 #63 #56 #61 120 #32 #9 110 #19 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 1 Compared to the rest of the world, Americans are less likely to die from freak injuries, diabetes, and strokes. But they are much more likely to die from Alzheimer's, lung cancer, or poisoning. TheVisualCommunicationGuy.com | 2015 Reference: http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/ Number of deaths in America each year America's world rank for caused deaths %23 10