Heart attacks the most common cause of death in Bangladesh last year: BBS
Accounted for 21.1% of all deaths in 2020; 8,248 people die from Covid-19 the same year
A total of 8,54,253 people died due to different causes in 2020 and around 21.1 percent died of cardiac arrest, according to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS).
Some 1,80,408 people have died of heart attacks, according to the data revealed by the BBS today.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. In the same year, 85,360 people died of brain strokes while 8,248 people died from coronavirus infection, the BBS said.
In 2019, a total of 8,22,841 people died, the BBS added.
Apart from this, 32,075 people died in 2020 due to asthma while 38,290 died from the disease in 2019.
A total of 786 deaths from dengue have been reported in the last year while in 2019 some 2,360 people died of the mosquito-borne disease.
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