Cause of Death | Gap in Korea LE Between 1997 and 2017 | Gap in Japan LE Between 1997 and 2017 | Gap in LE between Korea and Japan in 1997 (a) | Gap in LE between Korea and Japan in 2017 (b) | Changes in gaps between 2017 and 1997 (b-a) | |||||
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years | % | years | % | years | % | years | % | years | % | |
Non-communicable disease | 3.97 | 79.4 | 2.02 | 79.8 | 3.11 | 82.1 | 1.16 | 87.9 | −1.95 | 78.9 |
Stroke | 1.72 | 34.4 | 0.66 | 26.1 | 1.36 | 35.9 | 0.26 | 19.7 | −1.1 | 44.5 |
Stomach cancer | 0.45 | 9.0 | 0.21 | 8.3 | 0.26 | 6.9 | −0.02 | −1.5 | −0.28 | 11.3 |
Ischaemic heart disease | 0.65 | 13.0 | 0.54 | 21.3 | 0.24 | 6.3 | 0.01 | 0.8 | −0.23 | 9.3 |
Cirrhosis / liver diseases | 0.27 | 5.4 | 0.03 | 1.2 | 0.26 | 6.9 | 0.03 | 2.3 | −0.23 | 9.3 |
Tracheal / lung cancer | 0.16 | 3.2 | 0.06 | 2.4 | 0.16 | 4.2 | 0.08 | 6.1 | −0.08 | 3.2 |
Pancreatic cancer | 0.01 | 0.2 | −0.02 | −0.8 | − 0.01 | −0.3 | − 0.05 | −3.8 | −0.04 | 1.6 |
Diabetes mellitus | 0.18 | 3.6 | 0.03 | 1.2 | 0.36 | 9.5 | 0.32 | 24.2 | −0.04 | 1.6 |
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | 0.16 | 3.2 | 0.08 | 3.0 | 0.18 | 4.7 | 0.14 | 10.6 | −0.04 | 1.6 |
Liver cancer | 0.16 | 3.2 | 0.15 | 5.9 | 0.12 | 3.2 | 0.11 | 8.3 | −0.01 | 0.4 |
Hypertensive-heart disease | 0.07 | 1.4 | 0.04 | 1.6 | 0.09 | 2.4 | 0.08 | 6.1 | −0.01 | 0.4 |
Colon / rectal cancer | 0.01 | 0.2 | 0.04 | 1.6 | −0.07 | −1.8 | − 0.07 | −5.3 | −0.00 | 0.1 |
Gallbladder cancer | 0.05 | 1.0 | 0.05 | 2.0 | 0.02 | 0.5 | 0.02 | 1.5 | −0.00 | 0.1 |
Parkinson’s disease | −0.01 | − 0.2 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.01 | 0.3 | 0.01 | 0.8 | −0.00 | 0.0 |
Chronic kidney disease | 0.03 | 0.6 | 0.09 | 3.6 | −0.02 | −0.5 | 0.00 | 0.0 | + 0.02 | −0.8 |
Alzheimer / dementias | 0.06 | 1.2 | 0.06 | 2.4 | 0.15 | 4.0 | 0.24 | 18.2 | + 0.09 | −3.6 |
Communicable disease | 0.07 | 1.4 | 0.26 | 10.3 | −0.13 | −3.4 | −0.04 | − 3.0 | + 0.09 | − 3.6 |
Tuberculosis | 0.16 | 3.2 | 0.04 | 1.6 | 0.17 | 4.5 | 0.07 | 5.3 | −0.1 | 4.1 |
Lower respiratory tract | −0.09 | −1.8 | 0.22 | 8.7 | −0.3 | −7.9 | −0.11 | −8.3 | + 0.19 | −7.7 |
Injuries | 0.07 | 1.4 | 0.07 | 2.8 | 0.18 | 4.7 | 0.25 | 18.9 | + 0.07 | −2.8 |
Road injuries | 0.15 | 3.0 | 0.04 | 1.6 | 0.16 | 4.2 | 0.1 | 7.6 | −0.06 | 2.4 |
Falls | −0.01 | −0.2 | 0.01 | 0.4 | 0.02 | 0.5 | 0.04 | 2.9 | + 0.02 | −0.8 |
Self-harm | −0.07 | −1.4 | 0.02 | 0.8 | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.11 | 8.3 | + 0.11 | −4.5 |
Others | 0.89 | 17.8 | 0.18 | 7.1 | 0.63 | 16.5 | −0.05 | −3.8 | −0.68 | 27.5 |
Total | 5.00 | 100 | 2.53 | 100 | 3.79 | 100 | 1.32 | 90.9 | −2.47 | 100 |