red: violent deaths
green: premature deaths not directly caused by violence
blue: natural deaths
Yeah, close enough to win

. More precisely:
1 – in Red: Injuries caused by road accidents, homicides, conflict deaths, drowning, fire-related accidents, natural disasters and suicides.
2 – In Green: Communicable diseases (i.e. infectious diseases) such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis together with maternal deaths, neonatal deaths and deaths from malnutrition.
3 – in Blue: Non-communicable diseases. These are often chronic, long-term illnesses and include cardiovascular diseases (including stroke),B cancers, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases (such as chronic pulmonary disease and asthma, but excluding infectious respiratory diseases such as tuberculosis and influenza).
I was aiming for "Which of the 4 horsemen gets you", but it was difficult from both data capture and data display fronts. The distribution I plotted is easily available from
Our World in Data.
I was really surprised how high the Gulf Countries injuries rate is. I guess this is all the imported workers, who is they die on the job are counted in the gulf, but if they get any disease they are re-exported home. This really demonstrates the value of workplace health and safety.
Rwanda out there on its own demonstrates quite how horrific the genocide there was. If I plot the absolute death rate you get the graph below. About the same number of people have died from injuries in the last 27 years as have died from non-communicable diseases, most of those in 1 year. That is just horrific.
There is hope in there as well. This is Bangladesh, and the number of people dying from the main preventable deaths, the green ones, has gone down loads.
I have done a pdf with all the countries / regions. The better one is absolute values
here , or
here for the proportions.