Deaths according to Cause of Death 
Multiple causes of death
Multiple causes of death and ratio between basic cause and multiple causes by chapters from the 10th revision of the CIE and sex.
Units: specified in variables

	Both sexes			Males			Females			
	Multiple causes (MC)(Total)	Basic cause (BC)(Total)	Ratio (BC/MC)(Percentage)	Multiple causes (MC)(Total)	Basic cause (BC)(Total)	Ratio (BC/MC)(Percentage)	Multiple causes (MC)(Total)	Basic cause (BC)(Total)	Ratio (BC/MC)(Percentage)	
All causes	1,811,376	493,776	27.26	910,554	249,664	27.42	900,822	244,112	27.10	
Infectious and parasitic diseases	111,073	80,796	72.74	57,216	41,837	73.12	53,857	38,959	72.34	
Tumours	197,364	112,741	57.12	117,707	67,247	57.13	79,657	45,494	57.11	
Diseases of the blood and haematopoeitic organs, and certain disorders affecting the immune system	16,771	2,062	12.30	7,876	875	11.11	8,895	1,187	13.34	
Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases	86,451	15,290	17.69	39,980	6,735	16.85	46,471	8,555	18.41	
Mental and behavioural disorders	55,395	21,697	39.17	21,247	7,150	33.65	34,148	14,547	42.60	
Diseases of the nervous system and the sense organs	63,081	27,508	43.61	27,441	10,588	38.58	35,640	16,920	47.47	
Diseases of the circulatory system	544,224	119,853	22.02	259,338	55,946	21.57	284,886	63,907	22.43	
Diseases of the respiratory system	303,864	42,423	13.96	165,665	23,835	14.39	138,199	18,588	13.45	
Diseases of the digestive system	64,722	21,565	33.32	35,227	11,138	31.62	29,495	10,427	35.35	
Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue	10,220	1,902	18.61	3,680	647	17.58	6,540	1,255	19.19	
Diseases of the osteomuscular system and of the conjunctive tissue	15,360	5,225	34.02	5,094	1,729	33.94	10,266	3,496	34.05	
Diseases of the genitourinary system	87,170	15,810	18.14	42,199	6,763	16.03	44,971	9,047	20.12	
Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium	48	10	20.83	15	..	..	33	10	30.30	
Affections originated in the perinatal period	1,030	518	50.29	552	286	51.81	478	232	48.54	
Congenital malformations, deformities and chromosomal abnormalities	1,689	823	48.73	871	433	49.71	818	390	47.68	
Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not classified elsewhere	215,547	9,475	4.40	105,221	4,198	3.99	110,326	5,277	4.78	
External causes of mortality	37,367	16,078	43.03	21,225	10,257	48.33	16,142	5,821	36.06	
Notes:
1) The ratio represents the number of times that a cause appears as a basic cause for every 100 times that it has been reported  in the medical death certificates, that is, as a multiple cause.
Source: National Statistics Institute