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The numbers from Wikipedia are very different, many death are due to contagious illness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_causes_of_death_by_rat...

  Cardiovascular diseases              29.34%
  Infectious and parasitic diseases    23.04%
  Malignant neoplasms (cancers)        12.49%
  Respiratory diseases                  6.49%
  Unintentional injuries *              6.23%
  Perinatal conditions                  4.32%
  Digestive diseases                    3.45%
  Intentional injuries +                2.84%
  Neuropsychiatric disorders            1.95%
  Diabetes mellitus                     1.73%
  Diseases of the genitourinary system  1.49%
  
  * includes car accidents
  + suicide, violence, war, etc.



Those are world rates, not US rates.

In the US, it’s largely the things I listed.




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