The top causes of death in Spain between 2024 and 2024

TUMOURS accounted for 26,6% of all deaths in Spain for 2024, the second consecutive year.

According to the National Institute of Statistics, diseases of circulatory system accounted for 26.1% of all deaths.

The number of deaths due to cancers decreased by 2.4% compared to the previous year.

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This decline meant that the death rate from cancer (236.4 deaths per 100,000 residents) was higher that that of diseases affecting the circulatory system (231,8 per 100,000).

The most common cause of death among tumours was bronchus-lung cancer, with 23,239 (a 1.9% increase over 2023), followed closely by colon cancer (10,434) but a 4.6% decrease compared to the previous year.

In terms of deaths from circulatory diseases, the leading cause was ischemic heart diseases with 26,851 (down 3.2%), followed by cerebrovascular disease on 22,786 (down 2.7%).

In 2024 there will be 433,357 natural deaths in Spain. 95.8% are due to these causes.

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Colon cancer was the most common type of cancer.

In 2024, Covid-19 was not the leading cause of death for the first time in 2020. This is despite its prominence between 2020 and 2022.

In 2018, there were 18,304 deaths due to external causes. The leading cause, for the second consecutive year, was accidental falls with 4,407 fatalities (6% higher than in 2023).

Suicide was the second external factor with 3,846, which is a 6.6% decrease compared to 2023.