Share of deaths from infections — all countries

Share of deaths from infections — Saudi Arabia

Share of deaths from infections in Saudi Arabia in 2021 — 16.5%. Ranked 41 in the world out of 185. Since 2000, the indicator has fallen by 2.5 pp.

2021 16.5% −2.8 pp vs 2020
World rank 41of 185
Period maximum 19.3%2020
Period minimum 8.4%2019

Trend over time

2000–2021 · % of total deaths

Share of deaths from infections — Saudi Arabia, 2000–20215101520200020032006200920122015201820212000: 18.9%2010: 11.8%2015: 9.3%2019: 8.4%2020: 19.3%2021: 16.5%
Change over the period: −2.5 pp Annual average: -0.12 pp

Comparison, 2021

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

Saudi Arabia 16.5%
World 27.4%
Share of deaths from infections — Saudi Arabia, by year Saudi Arabia All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2021 16.5 −2.8 pp
2020 19.3 +10.9 pp
2019 8.4
2015 9.3
2010 11.8
2000 18.9

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.