That death accounting could not be independently verified.
Lung cancer is the worldwide leading cause of cancer death, accounting for 1.69 of the 8.8 million global cancer deaths in 2015.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, stroke is our fifth-leading cause of death, accounting for 140,000 fatalities each year.
Suicide is now – in places including the UK and US – a leading cause of death, accounting for more than one in 100 fatalities.
If all cancers are grouped together, it was the most common cause of death, accounting for 27.9% of all deaths last year, compared with 26.2% caused by circulatory diseases, such as heart diseases and strokes.
Drug and alcohol intoxication was the second-leading cause of death, accounting for 13percentt of the total, followed by suicide, accidental injuries, and illnesses or other natural causes.
While reductions in infectious disease have resulted in impressive declines in child mortality in Bangladesh, drowning is becoming proportionately more important as a major cause of death, accounting for at least 19% of deaths of children between 1 and 4 years of age in trend analysis since 2000.
Falls were the second most common cause of death, accounting for 12% of the total.
Alcohol use is third leading cause of preventable death, accounting for more than 75,000 deaths annually (CDC 2015).
Road accidents have been ranked in top ten causes of death, accounting for 2.2% of all deaths globally [21].
WHO projections suggest that by 2020 tobacco will become the largest single cause of death, accounting for 12.3 % of deaths worldwide.
