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Mortality, summary list of causes
2000
Highlights
- The gap in life expectancy between men and women has narrowed again,
according to new vital statistics data.
- Life expectancy at birth, a key indicator of a population's health status,
increased slightly to new record highs for both sexes in 2000. A woman
born in 2000 could expect to live 82.0 years, up 0.3 years
from 1999. A man's life expectancy at birth reached 76.7 years
in 2000, up 0.5 years.
- A total of 218,062 people died in Canada in 2000, down 0.7%
from 1999. This was the first year-over-year decrease in the number of
deaths since 1981.
- Almost 35% of deaths in 2000 were due to diseases of
the circulatory system (over 76,000 deaths); malignant neoplasms
(cancers) accounted for 29% (62,600 deaths). Among diseases of the
circulatory system, the most common causes of death were ischemic heart disease
(19%) and cerebrovascular disease (7%).
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