Deaths by cause in Belgium in 2013
This statistic displays the number of deaths by cause in Belgium in 2013, by gender. During this year 6,032 men and 5,330 women died as a result of respiratory disease, one of the leading causes of death in Belgium in 2013. Cardiovascular disease was the biggest cause of death among women in 2013 with over nine thousand deaths recorded. Cancer was the single biggest killer among men with over 9.4 thousand deaths recorded in this year.