In 2019, the leading causes of death in Africa were neonatal conditions, lower respiratory infections, and. The numbers come from a massive database maintained by the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, which tracks lives lost in every country, in every year, by every possible cause of death. Top ten causes of death in Africa in 2019. In Georgia and Colorado - the scenes of the two most recent mass shootings - the rates are a bit closer to the national average: 5.62 per 100,000 in Georgia and 2.27 in Colorado. The second-highest is in Louisiana: 9.34 per 100,000. In the District of Columbia, the rate is 18.5 per 100,000 - the highest in the United States. On a state-by-state calculation, the rates can be even higher. Also, a majority of the Africans are unable to afford quality health care services leaving them. Lack of adequate health facilities and sanitation has catapulted the figures in previous years. That was more than eight times as high as the rate in Canada, which had 0.47 deaths per 100,000 people - and nearly 100 times higher than in the United Kingdom, which had 0.04 deaths per 100,000. Other leading causes of death in Africa include stroke, pre-term birth complications, trauma, heart disease, malnutrition, and meningitis. has the 32nd-highest rate of deaths from gun violence in the world: 3.96 deaths per 100,000 people in 2019. The quick succession of horrific shootings this month in California has once again shone a spotlight on how frequent this type of violence is in the United States compared with other wealthy countries. Editor's note: This is the latest update of a story that NPR has run on several occasions after mass shooting events in the United States.
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