Aizawl, July 8 NNN;The disease which most of the people in Mizoram died of is cancer, followed by malaria.
As per record, in the year 2009 there were 5,942 deaths, out of which 683 (11.49%) was caused by cancer, the disease which most of the people died of.After cancer, malaria is the disease which most of the people died of in Mizoram. In the year 2009 552 (9.28%) died of malaria; while 527 (8.86%) died of asthma bronchitis, 203 (3.41%) died of pneumonia, and 203 (3.41%) had died of stomach & deudenum.
According to the Statistical Abstract 2011issued by Economics & Statistics Department recently, besides the above-mentioned 5 diseases, out of the 5942 deaths in 2009, 198 people died of heart diseases/ heart attacks, 146 died of Mengitis, 121 died because of disability, 113 died of Senility, 87died due to vehicle accident, 84 people died of Tuberculosis, 83 died of Jaundice, 81 died of Liver disease, 69 died of fever and Typhoid, 63 died of Ceribrovascular, and 49 people died of Diabetes.
The Statistical Abstract also shows that along with the increase in birth rate, the death rate also increases simultaneously in Mizoram. However, there had been more deaths in 2005 than in 2006.
So far, it has been recorded that 4,661 people died in 2004, 4,686 in 2005, 4,679 in 2006, 4,891 in 2007, 5,583 in 2008, and 5,942 in 2009.
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