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Mortality, Summary List of Causes
2002
Highlights
- Life expectancy at birth increased only for men in 2002, according
to new mortality data. This narrowed the life expectancy between men and women
to just 4.9 years.
- Men who were born in 2002 could expect to live to the record
high age of 77.2, up 0.2 years from 2001. On the other
hand, the life expectancy of women at birth remained unchanged at 82.1 years.
Life expectancy at birth for both sexes combined reached 79.7 years
in 2002—up 0.1 years from 2001 and entirely
a result of the gain among men.
- Life expectancy at the age of 65 improved only for men in 2002.
Their life expectancy rose 0.1 years, while senior women saw no
gain. At age 65, life expectancy for women exceeds that for men by 3.4 years.
- The infant mortality rate, that is, deaths in the first year of life,
increased in 2002 to 5.4 deaths for every 1,000 live
births, up from 5.2 in 2001. The entire increase resulted from
female infant mortality.
- The increase in the infant mortality rate was entirely due to the deaths
of infants under one day old. The death rate of these newborns increased to 2.5 per 1,000 live
births in 2002, from 2.3 the year before.
- The number of deaths in Canada rose 1.9% in 2002, continuing
a long-term upward trend. A total of 223,603 people died, up from 219,538 the
previous year.
- The age-standardized mortality rate, which controls for the impact of
population aging, rose among women for the first time in nine years in 2002.
The rate reached 485.7 deaths per 100,000 population.
- More than 74,600 deaths, or one-third of the total in 2002,
were due to diseases of the circulatory system. Malignant neoplasms (cancers)
accounted for 29% or 65,103 deaths. Combined, diseases of the
circulatory system and cancer were responsible for almost two-thirds of deaths.
This proportion has remained relatively unchanged for several years.
- More than 7,800 deaths were due to diabetes mellitus in Canada
in 2002, a dramatic 10.9% increase over 2001. This followed
a large 5.7% increase between 2000 and 2001. Deaths due
to diabetes, which have increased in 8 of the last 10 years,
were 75.8% higher than they were in 1992.
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