More people in Japan are dying of natural causes due to old age and it now ranks as the third leading cause of death after cancer and heart disease, according to the health ministry.
From the 1950s through 1980, cerebrovascular diseases such as strokes were the top cause of death in Japan. But now, cerebrovascular diseases are in fourth place.
Ministry figures show that about 110,000 deaths were registered as due to old age in 2018.
The increase was mainly attributable to the fact that more people are living into their 90s and beyond.
Dying of old age is regarded as “natural death.”
The number of people dying of old age had been dropping since hitting a peak in 1947, two years after the end of World War II. But the figure has been rising since 2001.
Death from old age in 2018 accounted for 8 percent of all deaths in Japan.
Cancer remains the leading cause of death with about 370,000 people succumbing to the disease in 2018, followed by about 210,000 people with heart diseases. The figure excludes those who died of complications resulting from high blood pressure.
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