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1-yuHpr-R9pMRy3WdGkAIqasZaU9HiSDoqh1AjOqpeI4 covid-19-was-the-third-largest-cause-of-death-in-2021 data-insight 
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                    "text": " \u2014 published last month by the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) \u2014 COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in 2021, after cardiovascular diseases and cancer.",
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 1 2024-06-14 15:12:48 2024-06-24 04:00:00 2024-06-18 14:56:55 unlisted ALBJ4Lua2ARxC4qIm7rvL8y_Nk2iNqOqvPRLewimUpd6j2QvcCm0WB3Wi2ysV7Xgx9TsWypBMNtjV9s8IUzclQ   <Image filename="annual-number-of-deaths-by-cause-desktop.png"/> According to the latest [Global Burden of Disease Study](https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)00367-2/fulltext) — published last month by the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) — COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in 2021, after cardiovascular diseases and cancer. These estimates suggest that COVID-19 was responsible for around eight million deaths in 2021. In many countries across South America and sub-Saharan Africa, the IHME reports that it was [the leading cause of death](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/leading-cause-of-death). Global improvements in healthcare have led to a steady [reduction in the death rate from infectious diseases](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/infectious-disease-death-rates?tab=chart) in recent decades, but the COVID-19 pandemic has reversed this trend. [Explore this data](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-number-of-deaths-by-cause) → COVID-19 was the third largest cause of death in 2021

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