This statistic illustrates the global distribution of deaths due to non-communicable diseases by type as of 2012, for the population aged under 70 years. Cardiovascular diseases were responsible for some 37 percent of all NCD-caused deaths, followed by malignant neoplasms with 27 percent.
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