Data for the report was collected through the South African civil registration system, which is maintained by the Department of Home Affairs and is categorised according to the International Classification of Diseases. A total of 54 112 people died of …
The leading cause of non-natural deaths is “other external causes of accidental injury”, which comprises 61 percent of non-natural deaths and is broken down into subcategories. The leading cause of death in these subcategories was attributed to “other and unspecified factors (51.8 percent) …
