Table 5 Cause-specific mortality fractions (%) among adults aged 15-64 (n=513), Dakar pilot study, 2019

Stroke

12.9

9.2

17.2

Other and unspecified cardiac diseases

8.7

6.2

11.5

Digestive neoplasms

8.1

10.2

5.7

Pulmonary tuberculosis

7.4

10.9

3.4

HIV/AIDS related death

6.7

4.9

8.8

Acute cardiac disease

5.6

7.2

3.7

Acute resp infect incl pneumonia

5.0

5.3

4.6

Respiratory neoplasms

3.7

5.3

1.9

Reproductive neoplasms

3.7

0.3

7.6

Pregnancy-related deaths

3.4

0.0

7.3

Diabetes mellitus

3.0

3.3

2.7

Other and unspecified neoplasms

2.6

3.5

1.6

Renal failure

2.3

2.2

2.5

Road traffic accident

2.2

4.2

0.0

Diarrhoeal diseases

1.4

2.1

0.6

Other causes

16.7

16.1

17.4

Undetermined

9.8

9.0

10.7

Number of deaths

513

273

240