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Communicable Disease Deaths (This Year)
Estimated number of deaths from communicable diseases since January 1st. Calculated from World Bank data: crude death rate × population gives total annual deaths, multiplied by the share attributable to communicable diseases (infectious and parasitic diseases, respiratory infections, and nutritional deficiencies).
WLDTier 1 SourceVerified Mar 2026
Communicable Disease Deaths (This Year)
Official value (2019): 10,693,253
Communicable Disease Deaths (This Year) growth (2000–2019)
-33.5%·in time period
2000: 16,075,875.108 deaths, 2010: 12,871,816.928 deaths, 2015: 11,553,037.175 deaths, 2019: 10,693,253.381 deaths
How is this calculated? Read the methodology