The chart shows the main causes of death worldwide between 2004 and 2030.

Overall, the mortality rate is predicted to climb from just over 35 million in 2004 to approximately 39 million in 2030. In 2004, about 14 million deaths were attributed to communicable diseases. This represented close to 40 per cent of the total. By 2030, however, deaths due to these diseases can be expected to have fallen to around 7 million, representing less than 20 per cent of the total, with a particularly steep decline in deaths caused by diarrhoeal diseases and malaria. Conversely, deaths will rise for most non-communicable diseases, especially where cancer deaths are concerned. These will nearly double over the period. A further category is fatalities that are the result of road accidents. The latter will go up steadily from roughly 1 million in 2004 to somewhere in the region of 2,5 million in 2030. The main trend that emerges from the chart is that deaths from non-communicable diseases and accidents will increase, while deaths from communicable diseases will drop

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