Share of deaths from noncommunicable diseases — all countries

Share of deaths from noncommunicable diseases — Tonga

Share of deaths from noncommunicable diseases in Tonga in 2021 — 84.6%. Ranked 11 in the world out of 185. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 4.9 pp.

2021 84.6% +0.4 pp vs 2020
World rank 11of 185
Period maximum 84.6%2021
Period minimum 79.8%2000

Trend over time

2000–2021 · % of total deaths

Share of deaths from noncommunicable diseases — Tonga, 2000–20217880828486200020032006200920122015201820212000: 79.8%2010: 82.3%2015: 83.1%2019: 83.8%2020: 84.2%2021: 84.6%
Change over the period: +4.9 pp Annual average: 0.23 pp

Comparison, 2021

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

Tonga 84.6%
World 63.4%
Share of deaths from noncommunicable diseases — Tonga, by year Tonga All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2021 84.6 +0.4 pp
2020 84.2 +0.4 pp
2019 83.8
2015 83.1
2010 82.3
2000 79.8

Polynesia, 2021

The same indicator for neighboring countries — with links to their pages

TO Tonga 84.6 WS Samoa 83.1

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.