SYNTHESIS INE@COVID-19, 14-apr-2020

www.ine.pt page 03/08 Communication Unit | tel: +351 21 842 61 00 | sci@ine.pt April . 14 . 2020 2016 2017 2018 Sources: Eurostat, Causes of death [hlth_cd_aro]; INE Espanha, Defunciones según la causa de muerte (dados para 2018) and Statistics Portugal, Deaths by death cause (2018 data). 0% 2% 4% 6% 8% 10% 12% 14% 16% Latvia Lithuania Estonia Finland Bulgary Croatia Austria Hungary Romania Slovakia Poland Slovenia Czechia Sweden France Germany Luxembourg Italy Netherlands Cyprus Malta Belgium Denmark Spain Greece Portugal Irland United Kingdom IN @ COVID-19 SYNTH SIS World health day Respiratory diseases [ Note : The statistics presented in this report detail those already released, concerning countries comparisons for the most recent years available.] More than 10% of deaths in Portugal are caused by diseases of the respiratory system: 11.7% according to the results of 2018. Portugal is thus one of the three countries in which this indicator is the highest, being only exceeded by Ireland and the United Kingdom if we take into account the latest data for the EU-28. Proportion of deaths from respiratory diseases as a% of total deaths, EU-28