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Share of medically certified deaths by major cause group, India 2023 (22.0% of registered deaths were medically certified)

Provenance

Publisher: Report on Medical Certification of Cause of Death 2023, Office of the Registrar General, India
Source: Report on Medical Certification of Cause of Death 2023, Office of the Registrar General, India
Data covers: 2023
Retrieved: 2026-09-04
Licence: see source
Redistributable: unknown
Verified by: IHMR Labs

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The data

cause_group	share_of_medically_certified_deaths_pct
Diseases of circulatory system	36.4
Diseases of respiratory system	11.5
Certain infectious and parasitic diseases	8.7
Diseases of genitourinary system	4.9
Neoplasms (cancer)	4.8
Injury, poisoning and external causes	4.3
Diseases of digestive system	4.2
Conditions originating in perinatal period	4.1
Symptoms/signs not elsewhere classified	11.9

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