Taipei Times
Date: Jul 23, 2019
By: Lee I-chia  /  Staff reporter

Cancer last year remained the leading cause of death in Taipei for the 47th consecutive year, the Taipei Department of Health said yesterday.

A total of 18,050 Taipei residents died last year, up 2.4 percent from the previous year, the department’s statistics office director Shen Chung-hsien (沈忠憲) said, adding that the average age of death was 76.4, slightly higher than the average of 73 nationwide.

The standardized mortality rate in the city was 317.6 deaths per 100,000 people, 1.4 percent lower than the average rate over the past decade, and lower than the national standardized mortality of 415 deaths last year, he said.

About 78 percent of the deaths in Taipei were caused by the 10 leading causes of death — 29 percent due to cancer (malignant tumor) and 64.3 percent due to seven types of chronic diseases.
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