Health systems in transition : Uzbekistan

Causes of death (ICD-10 classification)
1981
1990
1995
2000
2005
a
All causes
1 096.6
1 060.1
1 272.0
1 189.5
1 149.2
Communicable diseases
All infectious and parasitic diseases (A0–B99)
42.3
30.9
33.8
28.0
21.3
Tuberculosis (A15–A19)
18.8
12.8
16.3
21.3
16.4
HIV/AIDS (B20–B24)
0.0
0.0
0.2
Noncommunicable diseases
Malignant neoplasms (C00–C97)
117.7
119.2
96.9
84.7
77.4
Colon cancer (C18)
5.7
6.2
4.8
4.2
3.9
Cancer of larynx, trachea, bronchus and lung 
(C32–C34)
16.0
18.5
14.7
11.7
11.6
Breast cancer (C50), females
8.2
10.6
10.5
11.4
11.6
Cervical cancer (C53), females
5.4
4.7
5.5
4.2
5.7
Diabetes (E10–E14)
5.7
11.8
25.1
22.5
30.2
Mental and behavioural disorders (F00–F99)
3.3
1.7
6.2
3.2
1.7
Circulatory diseases (I00–I99)
575.6
600.2
781.9
772.3
754.2
  Ischaemic heart diseases (I20–I25)
365.5
379.8
476.1
449.3
380.9
  Cerebrovascular diseases (I60–I69)
154.9
164.5
209.2
192.1
177.9
Respiratory diseases (J00–J99)
154.8
110.8
117.7
93.8
66.4
Digestive diseases (K00-K93)
53.4
52.1
67.7
62.2
66.7
External causes
Transport accidents (V01–V99)
18.3
23.1
10.6
11.0
11.4
Suicide (X60–X84)
10.7
10.3
9.5
9.7
5.5
Ill-defined and unknown causes of mortality 
(R95–R99)
0.9
Sources
: WHO Regional Office for Europe, 2014b.
Note
: 
a
Last available year reported by Uzbekistan to the WHO Regional Office for Europe is 2005.
The age-standardized death rate from noncommunicable diseases in 2008 
amounted to 937.8 per 100 000 population, with a large proportion of deaths 
(54.0% among males and 39.1% for females) occurring under the age of 70 years 
(WHO, 2010). Out of all deaths due to noncommunicable diseases in 2008, 
about 77% can be attributed to cardiovascular diseases, 7–8% to cancers, and 

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Health systems in transition
  
Uzbekistan
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3–4% to respiratory diseases (WHO, 2010). At the same time, mortality from 
digestive diseases has increased notably in the country, much of which is due 
to chronic liver disease and cirrhosis.
The maternal mortality rate in Uzbekistan has also followed a development 
similar to trends in other former Soviet countries, declining to an official rate 
of 20.2 maternal deaths per 100 000 live births in 2012. However, a maternal 
death is considered to have arisen from a criminal offence and is subject to 
criminal investigations by the prosecutor’s office, creating an incentive for 
under-reporting in official statistics. WHO estimated maternal mortality at 
36 per 100 000 live births in 2012 (Table 1.5).