Share of deaths from noncommunicable diseases — all countries

Share of deaths from noncommunicable diseases — Barbados

Share of deaths from noncommunicable diseases in Barbados in 2021 — 79.2%. Ranked 31 in the world out of 185. Since 2000, the indicator has fallen by 3.4 pp.

2021 79.2% −8.1 pp vs 2020
World rank 31of 185
Period maximum 87.3%2019
Period minimum 79.2%2021

Trend over time

2000–2021 · % of total deaths

Share of deaths from noncommunicable diseases — Barbados, 2000–202177.58082.58587.5200020032006200920122015201820212000: 82.6%2010: 85.3%2015: 85.6%2019: 87.3%2020: 87.2%2021: 79.2%
Change over the period: −3.4 pp Annual average: -0.16 pp

Comparison, 2021

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

Barbados 79.2%
World 63.4%
Share of deaths from noncommunicable diseases — Barbados, by year Barbados All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2021 79.2 −8.1 pp
2020 87.2 −0.1 pp
2019 87.3
2015 85.6
2010 85.3
2000 82.6

About the indicator

The share of deaths from noncommunicable diseases in the total number of deaths during a year. This group takes in cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, chronic respiratory disease and the remaining conditions that do not pass from person to person. The three shares — noncommunicable diseases, infections and injuries — together make up a hundred percent, so they have to be read only together: a rise in one share means a fall in the other two and does not by itself say that people started dying of that cause more often.

Important: There are no aggregates by country group: the correct weight is the total number of deaths, and all we have is the death rate, not the absolute number. A share, not a level: in countries with high life expectancy it is close to 90% because infections have been beaten.

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