Probability of dying from noncommunicable diseases — all countries

Probability of dying from noncommunicable diseases — Melanesia

Probability of dying from noncommunicable diseases in Melanesia in 2021 — 30.2%. Since 2000, the indicator has fallen by 2.3 pp.

2021 30.2% −1.5 pp vs 2020
World rank
Period maximum 32.9%2001
Period minimum 30.2%2021

Trend over time

2000–2021 · %

Probability of dying from noncommunicable diseases — Melanesia, 2000–202130313233200020032006200920122015201820212000: 32.5%2001: 32.9%2002: 32.2%2003: 32.3%2004: 31.7%2005: 32%2006: 32%2007: 32.4%2008: 32.1%2009: 31.3%2010: 31.4%2011: 31.4%2012: 32%2013: 31.8%2014: 32.4%2015: 32.3%2016: 32.1%2017: 31.6%2018: 31.6%2019: 32%2020: 31.7%2021: 30.2%
Change over the period: −2.3 pp Annual average: -0.11 pp

Comparison, 2021

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Melanesia

Melanesia 30.2%
World 18.3%
Probability of dying from noncommunicable diseases — Melanesia, by year Melanesia All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2021 30.2 −1.5 pp
2020 31.7 −0.2 pp
2019 32 +0.4 pp
2018 31.6 +0.1 pp
2017 31.6 −0.5 pp
2016 32.1 −0.2 pp
2015 32.3 −0 pp
2014 32.4 +0.5 pp
2013 31.8 −0.1 pp
2012 32 +0.5 pp
2011 31.4 +0 pp
2010 31.4 +0.2 pp
2009 31.3 −0.8 pp
2008 32.1 −0.4 pp
2007 32.4 +0.4 pp
2006 32 +0.1 pp
2005 32 +0.2 pp
2004 31.7 −0.6 pp
2003 32.3 +0 pp
2002 32.2 −0.7 pp
2001 32.9 +0.3 pp
2000 32.5

About the indicator

The probability that a person who has reached the age of 30 will die before 70 from one of four groups of noncommunicable diseases: cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes or chronic respiratory disease. This is not the share of those who died but a calculated risk based on current age-specific mortality rates. The indicator belongs to the Sustainable Development Goals as the principal measure of the burden of noncommunicable diseases, because it takes precisely premature mortality — death before the age that is considered expected.

Important: Four groups of diseases, not all noncommunicable ones: that is how SDG target 3.4 is set. The age range 30–70 is chosen in order to separate premature mortality from mortality in old age.

Source: Global Health Observatory (WHO), license CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.