Ischaemic heart disease was the leading cause of death in the 50–59 age group in 2019 (8.41% of deaths), followed by tuberculosis (8.07% of 50–59 age group deaths) and HIV/AIDS (7.57% of 50–59 age group deaths) in the African Region.

2024年9月17日 · Lower respiratory infections were the leading cause of death in Africa in 2021. Lower respiratory infections accounted for 8.6 percent of all deaths in Africa that year, followed …

2024年12月23日 · The number of deaths registered in Africa was projected at 11.7 million in 2023. This was a decline from the past two year, when the continent experienced rising …

2021年11月10日 · In 2019, an estimated 429,179 deaths in Africa were due to this disease, up from 391,220 in 2015. Globally ischaemic heart disease is the number one killer, responsible for 16% of all deaths.

2024年7月15日 · One-sided violence was the deadliest form of conflict in Africa, accounting for over half of its deaths between 1989 and 2023. A significant portion of these deaths resulted from a single act of violence: the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Intrastate conflicts caused about a third of all deaths, particularly in Ethiopia and present-day Eritrea.

This Atlas 2022 has been prepared by a core team from Assistant Regional Director Cluster of the WHO Regional Office for Africa under the leadership and guidance of the Cluster Director, Lindiwe Makubalo, and DAK (Data, Analytics and Knowledge Management) Team Leader, Humphrey Cyprian Karamagi.

Chart and table of the Africa death rate from 1950 to 2025. United Nations projections are also included through the year 2100.

This chapter reviews data collection and techniques for estimating trends, mortality levels and trends, verbal autopsies, causes of death, and the effect of AIDS on child mortality. The discussions of mortality levels and causes of death provide the background for later chapters, which consider the evidence for the effects of specific programs.

2025年1月7日 · Last August, famine was officially declared at the camp for displaced people in the Darfur region known as Zamzam. Doctors Without Borders estimated in February 2024 that 13 children were dying ...

Of the reported 120 million people forcibly displaced worldwide this year — up from 35.8 million in 2012, according to UNHCR’s annual Global Trends Report, 37% (45.9 million) of those are in Africa, comprising around 8.9 million refugees, 1.1 million asylum seekers, 35 million internally displaced people and 1 million stateless people.