List of countries by risk of death from non-communicable disease

This is a list of countries by risk of premature death from non-communicable disease such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, or chronic respiratory disease between ages 30 and 70 as published by the World Health Organization in 2008. Measuring the risk of dying from target NCDs is important to assess the extent of burden from mortality due NCDs in a population.

Life tables specifying all-cause mortality rates by age and sex for WHO Member States are developed from available death registration data, sample registration systems (India, China) and data on child and adult mortality from censuses and surveys.

Cause-of-death distributions are estimated from death registration data, and data from population-based epidemiological studies, disease registers and notifications systems for selected specific causes of death. Causes of death for populations without usable death-registration data are estimated using cause-of-death models together with data from population-based epidemiological studies, disease registers and notifications systems.^[1]

WHO 2008 rankings

Rank	Country	Risk of death from non-communicable disease[2]
1	Iceland	10%
1	Japan	10%
1	Switzerland	10%
4	Australia	11%
4	Israel	11%
4	Italy	11%
4	Spain	11%
4	Sweden	11%
9	Austria	12%
9	Canada	12%
9	Costa Rica	12%
9	Finland	12%
9	France	12%
9	South Korea	12%
9	Peru	12%
16	Belgium	13%
16	Chile	13%
16	Germany	13%
16	Greece	13%
16	Ireland	13%
16	Netherlands	13%
16	New Zealand	13%
16	Panama	13%
16	Portugal	13%
16	United Kingdom	13%
26	Ecuador	14%
26	Kuwait	14%
26	Slovenia	14%
26	Tunisia	14%
26	United Arab Emirates	14%
31	Colombia	15%
31	Denmark	15%
31	El Salvador	15%
31	United States	15%

See also

• Non-communicable disease
• List of countries by life expectancy

References

1. http://apps.who.int/gho/indicatorregistry/App_Main/view_indicator.aspx?iid=3354
2. http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.main.A857?lang=en