I ran across the following website yesterday,
a website I had not viewed previously. It's not
up-to-date & does not include deaths from
Covid-19. Covid-19 deaths are included from
2 other websites at the bottom of this post.

Causes of Death
First published in February 2018.
Last updated in December 2019.
https://ourworldindata.org/causes-of-death

56 million people died in 2017.

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Sidenote: What was the world population
in 2017? 7.6 billion. https://www.google.com/search?&q=What+was+the+world+population+in+2017+as+per+the+United+Nations+Statistics+records

So, 1 of every 135.71 people died in 2017.

End Sidenote
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Cardiovascular diseases are the leading
cause of death globally.

The second biggest cause are cancers.

Causes of death vary significantly between
countries: non-communicable diseases dom-
inate in rich countries, whereas infectious
diseases remain high at lower incomes.

The world is making progress against infectious
diseases. As a consequence more people are
dying from non-communicable diseases.

Fewer people die at a young age. Almost half of
all people who die are 70 years & older.

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Sidenote: Unfortunately, they use wide ranges
for death ages instead of categorizing them in
10 year increments. Almost half of deaths are
at age 70 years & older, a much better analy-
sis would be specifying deaths in much smaller
age increments.