Share of deaths from infections — all countries

Share of deaths from infections — Gambia

Share of deaths from infections in the Gambia in 2021 — 50.2%. Ranked 153 in the world out of 185. Since 2000, the indicator has fallen by 13.4 pp.

2021 50.2% +0.9 pp vs 2020
World rank 153of 185
Period maximum 63.6%2000
Period minimum 49%2019

Trend over time

2000–2021 · % of total deaths

Share of deaths from infections — Gambia, 2000–20214550556065200020032006200920122015201820212000: 63.6%2010: 58.9%2015: 53.2%2019: 49%2020: 49.3%2021: 50.2%
Change over the period: −13.4 pp Annual average: -0.64 pp

Comparison, 2021

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

Gambia 50.2%
World 27.4%
Share of deaths from infections — Gambia, by year Gambia All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2021 50.2 +0.9 pp
2020 49.3 +0.3 pp
2019 49
2015 53.2
2010 58.9
2000 63.6

About the indicator

The share of deaths from infectious diseases, and also from conditions related to pregnancy and childbirth and from undernutrition, in the total number of deaths during a year. The group is brought together for a reason: all these causes retreat roughly at the same time as incomes rise and health care develops, and their combined share serves as one of the clearest measures of the stage of the epidemiological transition a country is at. The spread is enormous: from a few percent in Europe to half of all deaths in the poorest countries of Africa.

Important: There are no aggregates by country group: a weight by the total number of deaths is needed, and we do not have it. The group takes in not only infections but also maternal mortality and undernutrition, so the share is higher than one might expect from infectious diseases alone.

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