Leading Causes of Death and Hospitalization in Canada

• Table 1: Leading causes of death, Canada, 2005, males and females combined: counts (crude death rate per 100,000) [ PDF version ]¹

• Table 2: Leading causes of hospitalizations, Canada, 2005/06, males and females combined: counts (crude rate per 100,000) [ PDF version ]

These tables are based on Injury and Child Maltreatment Section analysis of data from Statistics Canada (mortality) and the Canadian Institute for Health Information (hospitalization). The most frequent deaths and hospitalizations from injury and poisoning were subdivided by intent (unintentional injury, intentionally self-inflicted injury, or injury due to assault) and highlighted to stand out in the table. All data except hospitalization data from the province of Quebec were classified using ICD-10. Quebec was still using ICD-9 for this purpose in 2004-05. Adverse effects occurring in medical care were excluded from the unintentional injuries.

It should be noted that the hospitalization data represent the numbers of hospitalizations for treatment of disease or injury – not the numbers of diseases and injuries requiring hospitalization or the numbers of injured or ill people admitted to hospital.

ICD-10 groupings used in the tables.

*Excludes adverse events.

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