Statistics: mortality rate in Romania advanced to 11.7 per 1,000 in 2015

The mortality rate in Romania advanced to 11.7 per 1,000 in 2015, from 11.4 per 1,000 in 2014, the National Institute of Statistics informs.

Last year's records show 260,997 deaths, 6,206 more than in 2014. The figures were up 2.4 percent overall, 3.0pct up in urban areas, and 2.0pct up in rural areas. Child deaths (up to four years-old) were down year on year, as were youth deaths, with the steepest decline of - 7.7pct registered in the 20 - 24 age category. 

Conversely, there has been a significant rise in the number of deaths in the 15 to 19 y.o. age group and figures were higher than average from 35 on. Mortality was higher than one year ago among women (by 2.9pct overall and more in urban areas), but still lower than among men, up to 75 years of age. 

The main death causes in 2015 were unchanged: circulatory diseases (58.9pct, of which 20.2 coronary diseases and 17.0pct cerebral circulation), followed by tumors 19.7pct, respiratory diseases 5.7pct, digestive diseases (5.5pct), traumas and poisoning (3.7pct), etc.

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