Mortality rate (per 100,000) due to cardiovascular disease, malignant neoplasms, diabetes and chronic lower respiratory disease

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Headline data

US crude mortality rate (per 100,000) due to cardiovascular disease, malignant neoplasms, diabetes and chronic lower respiratory disease
Year Value
2000 608.5
2001 594.5
2002 586.5
2003 571.6
2004 545.9
2005 538.9
2006 514.6
2007 500.3
2008 494.0
2009 475.6
2010 470.0
2011 460.4
2012 452.2
2013 448.2
2014 441.3
2015 442.9
2016 435.5
2017 433.0
2018 426.0
2019 419.3
2020 428.3
2021 438.5
2022 423.6

Source: National Vital Statistics System, Underlying Cause of Death data file

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This table provides metadata for the actual indicator available from United States statistics closest to the corresponding global SDG indicator. Please note that even when the global SDG indicator is fully available from American statistics, this table should be consulted for information on national methodology and other American-specific metadata information.

Indicator

Mortality rate due to cardiovascular disease, malignant neoplasms, diabetes and chronic lower respiratory disease.
Organisation

National Vital Statistics System, Underlying Cause of Death data file.
Definition and concepts

Combined mortality of cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes or chronic respiratory diseases.
Unit of measure

Age-adjusted rates per 100,000 US 2000 standard population for the respective year.
Data sources

National Vital Statistics System, Underlying Cause of Death data file - http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data_access/vitalstatsonline.htm
Data providers

Mortality Statistics Branch, Division of Vital Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics
Comment and limitations

Rates were generated by CDC Wonder using the Underlying Cause of Death mortality files. Rates were selected based on the ICD-10 113 Cause of Death listing.
Method of computation

The age-adjusted rate is calculated as the number of deaths due to combined causes as identified by ICD-10 codes C00-C97 (malignant neoplasms), E10-E14 (diabetes mellitus), I00-I78 (major cardiovascular disease) and J40-J47 (chronic lower respiratory diseases) divided by the US population. Rates are age-adjusted to the US 2000 standard population using the direct method of applying age-specific death rates to the U.S. standard population distribution. See http://wonder.cdc.gov/wonder/help/ucd.html#Age-Adjusted Rates for more detail.
Actual indicator available - description

US mortality rate due to combined causes of death related to malignant neoplasms, diabetes mellitus, major cardiovascular diseases, and chronic lower respiratory diseases. The data presented here is age-adjusted. Crude and age-adjusted rates are both available at the CDC WONDER.
Date of national source publication

December, 2016
Periodicity

Annual
Date metadata updated

July, 2024

This table provides information on metadata for SDG indicators as defined by the UN Statistical Commission. Complete global metadata is provided by the UN Statistics Division.

Indicator

Indicator 3.4.1: Mortality rate attributed to cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes or chronic respiratory disease
Target

Target 3.4: By 2030, reduce by one third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases through prevention and treatment and promote mental health and well-being
Organisation

World Health Organization (WHO)
Definition and concepts

Definitions:

Mortality rate attributed to cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes or chronic respiratory disease.

Probability of dying between the ages of 30 and 70 years from cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes or chronic respiratory diseases, defined as the per cent of 30-year-old-people who would die before their 70th birthday from cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, or chronic respiratory disease, assuming that s/he would experience current mortality rates at every age and s/he would not die from any other cause of death (e.g., injuries or HIV/AIDS). This indicator is calculated using life table methods (see further details in section 3.3).

Concepts:

Probability of dying: The likelihood that an individual would die between two ages given current mortality rates at each age, calculated using life table methods. The probability of death between two ages may be called a mortality rate.

Life table: A table showing the mortality experience of a hypothetical group of infants born at the same time and subject throughout their lifetime to a set of age-specific mortality rates.

Cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes or chronic respiratory diseases: ICD-10 underlying causes of death I00-I99, COO-C97, E10-E14 and J30-J98.

Unit of measure

Probability
Data sources

The preferred data source is death registration systems with complete coverage and medical certification of cause of death. Other possible data sources include household surveys with verbal autopsy, and sample or sentinel registration systems.

Data providers

National statistics offices and/or ministries of health.

Comment and limitations

Cause of death estimates have large uncertainty ranges for some causes and some regions. Data gaps and limitations in high-mortality regions reinforce the need for caution when interpreting global comparative cause of death assessments, as well as the need for increased investment in population health measurement systems. The use of verbal autopsy methods in sample registration systems, demographic surveillance systems and household surveys provides some information on causes of death in populations without well-functioning death registration systems, but there remain considerable challenges in the validation and interpretation of such data, and in the assessment of uncertainty associated with diagnoses of underlying cause of death.

Method of computation

The methods used for the analysis of causes of death depend on the type of data available from countries:

For countries with a high-quality vital registration system including information on cause of death, the vital registration that member states submit to the WHO Mortality Database were used, with adjustments where necessary, e.g. for under-reporting of deaths, unknown age and sex, and ill-defined causes of deaths.

For countries without high-quality death registration data, cause of death estimates are calculated using other data, including household surveys with verbal autopsy, sample or sentinel registration systems, special studies and surveillance systems. In most cases, these data sources are combined in a modelling framework.

The probability of dying between ages 30 and 70 years from the four main NCDs was estimated using age-specific death rates of the combined four main NCD categories. Using the life table method, the risk of death between the exact ages of 30 and 70, from any of the four causes and in the absence of other causes of death, was calculated using the equation .provided in the document below. The ICD codes used are: Cardiovascular disease: I00-I99, Cancer: C00-C97, Diabetes: E10-E14, and Chronic respiratory disease: J30-J98

Formulas to (1) calculate age-specific mortality rate for each five-year age group between 30 and 70, (2) translate the 5-year death rate into the probability of death in each 5-year age range, and (3) calculate the probability of death from age 30 to age 70, independent of other causes of death, can be found on page 6 of this document:

NCD Global Monitoring Framework: Indicator Definitions and Specifications. Geneva: World Health Organization, 2014 (http://www.who.int/nmh/ncd-tools/indicators/GMF_Indicator_Definitions_FinalNOV2014.pdf?ua=1)

Metadata update

2021-03-01
International organisations(s) responsible for global monitoring

World Health Organization (WHO)

Related indicators

Not applicable
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