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Cancer is the second-leading cause of US deaths. About how many died of it in 2024?

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683,491 deaths

Heart disease is the top killer in the US. About how many Americans died of it in 2024?

Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States by a wide margin.

Source: CDC NCHS FastStats (2024) cdc.gov

about 2.18 million (sum of the 10 listed 2024 causes = 2,179,957; page does not state a single combined total)

About how many total deaths did the top 10 leading causes account for in the US in 2024?

The top 10 causes of death together accounted for roughly 2.4 million deaths in the US.

Source: CDC NCHS FastStats (2024) cdc.gov

57%

Worldwide, what share of all deaths in 2021 came from just the top 10 causes?

The top 10 causes accounted for 39 million of the 68 million deaths worldwide that year.

Source: World Health Organization (2021) who.int

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