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 ICD 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	1,693,457	464,417	27.42	849,113	234,362	27.60	844,344	230,055	27.25	
Infectious and parasitic diseases	72,240	38,589	53.42	37,542	20,096	53.53	34,698	18,493	53.30	
Tumours	199,666	114,828	57.51	118,015	67,911	57.54	81,651	46,917	57.46	
Diseases of the blood and haematopoeitic organs, and certain disorders affecting the immune system	16,722	2,335	13.96	7,995	975	12.20	8,727	1,360	15.58	
Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases	80,028	15,924	19.90	36,526	7,051	19.30	43,502	8,873	20.40	
Mental and behavioural disorders	52,608	22,744	43.23	19,961	7,534	37.74	32,647	15,210	46.59	
Diseases of the nervous system and the sense organs	57,599	26,765	46.47	25,747	10,684	41.50	31,852	16,081	50.49	
Diseases of the circulatory system	508,738	121,341	23.85	242,970	57,183	23.54	265,768	64,158	24.14	
Diseases of the respiratory system	261,026	43,024	16.48	141,091	23,972	16.99	119,935	19,052	15.89	
Diseases of the digestive system	67,265	23,266	34.59	36,672	12,121	33.05	30,593	11,145	36.43	
Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue	10,316	2,043	19.80	3,817	707	18.52	6,499	1,336	20.56	
Diseases of the osteomuscular system and of the conjunctive tissue	14,771	5,549	37.57	4,977	1,822	36.61	9,794	3,727	38.05	
Diseases of the genitourinary system	89,142	18,019	20.21	42,297	7,610	17.99	46,845	10,409	22.22	
Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium	54	11	20.37	25	..	..	29	11	37.93	
Affections originated in the perinatal period	988	513	51.92	574	312	54.36	414	201	48.55	
Congenital malformations, deformities and chromosomal abnormalities	1,635	862	52.72	860	449	52.21	775	413	53.29	
Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not classified elsewhere	218,615	10,030	4.59	106,153	4,234	3.99	112,462	5,796	5.15	
External causes of mortality	42,044	18,574	44.18	23,891	11,701	48.98	18,153	6,873	37.86	
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