Table 2:

Number of deaths and crude mortality rate by primary cause and food insecurity*

CharacteristicTotalFood-secureMarginally food-insecureModerately food-insecureSeverely food-insecurePercent food-insecure, %
Sampled respondents510 010452 89018 37025 60013 15011.2
Person-years3 390 5003 022 500120 300165 40082 30010.9
All deaths25 460 (751)22 250 (736)905 (752)1380 (834)925 (1124)12.6
 Potentially avoidable deaths17 490 (516)15 145 (501)655 (544)1000 (605)690 (838)13.4
Noncommunicable diseases22 830 (673)20 140 (666)780 (648)1185 (716)725 (881)11.8
 Cancers10 675 (315)9590 (317)320 (266)490 (296)275 (334)10.2
 Circulatory-respiratory diseases7775 (229)6770 (224)280 (233)460 (278)265 (322)12.9
 Metabolic-digestive diseases2140 (63)1790 (59)95 (79)135 (82)120 (146)16.4
 Other miscellaneous2250 (66)1990 (66)85 (71)105 (63)70 (85)11.6
Communicable diseases and injuries2620 (77)2110 (70)120 (100)190 (115)200 (243)19.5
 Infectious-parasitic diseases410 (12)325 (11)25 (21)35 (21)25 (30)20.7
 Unintentional injuries945 (28)765 (25)40 (33)60 (36)80 (97)19.0
 Suicide470 (14)365 (12)30 (25)30 (18)45 (55)22.3
 Other miscellaneous800 (24)660 (22)25 (21)65 (39)50 (61)17.5
  • * Crude mortality rate per 100 000 person-years is shown in parentheses. “Percent food-insecure” refers to the proportion of total deaths accounted for by marginally, moderately and severely food-insecure adults. Numbers of persons were rounded to the nearest integer of 5. Numbers of person-years were rounded to the nearest integer of 100. Numbers may not add up exactly due to rounding.