Cancer is the second-leading cause of US deaths. About how many died of it in 2024?
Answer619,876 deaths
Cancer killed nearly 620,000 Americans in 2024, just behind heart disease.
Source: CDC NCHS FastStats (2024) cdc.gov
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About how many total deaths did the top 10 leading causes account for in the US in 2024?
Answerabout 2.18 million (sum of the 10 listed 2024 causes = 2,179,957; page does not state a single combined total)
The top 10 causes of death together accounted for roughly 2.4 million deaths in the US.
Source: CDC NCHS FastStats (2024) cdc.gov
Ischaemic heart disease is the world's #1 killer. What share of all global deaths did it cause in 2021?
Answerabout 13%
Heart disease caused about 9.1 million deaths worldwide, roughly 13% of the global total.
Source: World Health Organization (2021) who.int
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COVID-19 became the world's #2 cause of death in 2021. About how many people died from it that year?
Answerabout 8.8 million
COVID-19 killed an estimated 8.8 million people worldwide in 2021 alone, per WHO estimates.
Source: World Health Organization (2021) who.int
About how many Americans died of kidney disease in 2024?
Answer55,081 deaths
Kidney disease killed about 55,000 Americans in 2024.
Source: CDC NCHS FastStats (2024) cdc.gov
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