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Table 2 Percentage of deaths due to communicable, maternal, neonatal, and nutritional diseases, non-communicable diseases, and injuries according to GBD 2016 estimates and death records in 1990 and 2015

From: Estimating cause-specific mortality in Madagascar: an evaluation of death notification data from the capital city

 

1990

2015

Males

Females

Males

Females

GBD

Death records

GBD

Death records

GBD

Death records

GBD

Death records

Communicable, maternal, neonatal, and nutritional

63 (61–66)

63

66 (63–69)

64

54 (48–59)

38

53 (48–60)

36

Non-communicable

31 (28–33)

31

30 (27–33)

33

39 (34–44)

53

42 (36–47)

59

Injuries (including self-harm and interpersonal violence)

6 (5–7)

6

4 (3–4)

3

7 (6–8)

8

4 (4–5)

4

  1. Cause-specific mortality fractions are in % (with 95% uncertainty intervals for the GBD in parentheses). Estimates from death records are standardized using the age structure of deaths estimated in the GBD 2016 in 1990 and 2015