Puerto Rico (US): Mortality from CVD, cancer, diabetes or CRD between exact ages 30 and 70, female (%)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2021, Puerto Rico (US)'s mortality from CVD, cancer, diabetes or CRD between exact ages 30 and 70, female (%) fell 0.4 percentage points on 2020 (from 7.8% to 7.4%).

Across the 20 yearly changes before that (2001 to 2020), the average change was −0.21 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.35 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.5 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 0.3 percentage points in 2013 and the biggest yearly fall was 0.9 percentage points in 2012. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2012 to 2021 the straight-line trend is downward, about 0.16 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 83% of the movement over 10 observed years.

Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.

A straight-line projection, tested first

Extending that straight line gives about 7% for 2024. We show this only because the same method, fitted on earlier years, predicted 2019 to 2021 better than "no change" would have: its average miss was 0.13%, against 0.23% for assuming no change. Treat it as a continuation of the recent pattern, not a forecast of events: it cannot see a recession, a policy change or a revision to the data.

See how a linear trend forecast works and the guide on forecasting without fooling yourself.

How it compares

In 2021, Puerto Rico (US) had the 165th highest value of the 185 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.

Closest to Puerto Rico (US) in the 2021 ranking

• Malta — 164th of 185: 7.5%
• Austria — 165th of 185: 7.4%
• Belgium — 166th of 185: 7.4%
• Albania — 168th of 185: 7.3%
• France — 169th of 185: 7.3%
• Italy — 170th of 185: 7.1%

What this measures

Mortality from CVD, cancer, diabetes or CRD is the percent of 30-year-old-people who would die before their 70th birthday from any of cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, or chronic respiratory disease, assuming that s/he would experience current mortality rates at every age and s/he would not die from any other cause of death (e.g., injuries or HIV/AIDS).

Limitations: Due to changes in input data and methods, the revisions of the data are not comparable to previously published estimates. The current estimates for 2020 and 2021 are likely underestimated in countries where high-quality vital registration data was lacking at the time of GHE2021 production. This is because the modeled estimates cannot fully account for deaths from the four major NCDs indirectly attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, the data for 2020 and 2021 should be interpreted with caution.

Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.

All 22 values

Mortality from CVD, cancer, diabetes or CRD between exact ages 30 and 70, female (%) in nearby economies

• Antigua and Barbuda — 11.6% (2021)
• Argentina — 10.9% (2021)
• Bahamas, The — 17.9% (2021)
• Barbados — 12.6% (2021)
• Belize — 16.8% (2021)
• Bolivia — 18.9% (2021)
• Brazil — 12% (2021)
• Chile — 7.6% (2021)

More health data for Puerto Rico (US)

• Population ages 00-04, female (% of female population) — 2.74% (2025)
• Population ages 00-04, male (% of male population) — 3.24% (2025)
• Population ages 0-14, female — 174,237 (2025)
• Population ages 0-14, female (% of female population) — 10.33% (2025)
• Population ages 0-14, male — 183,727 (2025)
• Population ages 0-14, male (% of male population) — 12.26% (2025)
• Population ages 0-14, total — 357,964 (2025)
• Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) — 11.24% (2025)
• Population ages 05-09, female (% of female population) — 3.28% (2025)

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Questions people ask

What is Puerto Rico (US)'s mortality from CVD, cancer, diabetes or CRD between exact ages 30 and 70, female (%)?

7.4% in 2021, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator SH.DYN.NCOM.FE.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory Data Repository (http://apps.who.int/ghodata/)., World Health Organization (WHO), uri: https://www.who.int/data/gho Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.

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