Diseases of the circulatory system cause more than 9 million deaths annually worldwide.
Notes on verification
The '>9 million' figure is technically confirmed but substantially understates actual global cardiovascular death toll, which recent WHO/GBD data place at ~18-20 million annually. The stated figure appears to reflect an outdated or single-sex/single-condition estimate rather than the full current global burden.
Sources
- CirugÃa de revascularización miocárdica: análisis de supervivencia a corto y largo plazo (scielo.isciii.es)
- https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/cardiovascular-diseases-(cvds) (who.int)
- https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacc.2020.11.021 (jacc.org)
- https://ourworldindata.org/cardiovascular-diseases (ourworldindata.org)
- https://www.healthdata.org/news-events/newsroom/news-releases/report-cardiovascular-diseases-caused-1-3-global-deaths-2023 (healthdata.org)