Measures of Mortality

Leading Causes of Death

The leading cause of death rankings present the most frequently occurring causes of death in San Diego County. These measures show the relative burden of a specific cause of death compared to other causes. Rankings vary by geography, age, gender, race/ethnicity, and even vary over time.

While diseases of the heart, commonly known as heart disease, holds the spot as the #1 leading cause of death in the United States and in the state of California, Cancer continues to be the leading cause of death in San Diego County.

Leading Causes of Death Workbook: This workbook presents the leading causes of death in alphabetical order. Each tab represents one condition and displays the cases and rates of deaths by age, race/ethnicity, and gender by each geography.  

Life Expectancy

Smoking Attributable Mortality

• 2016 Smoking Attributable Mortality Table Series
  • San Diego County
  • Central Region
  • East Region
  • North Central Region
  • North Coastal Region
  • North Inland Region
  • South Region

• 2015 Smoking Attributable Mortality Table Series
  • San Diego County
  • Central Region
  • East Region
  • North Central Region
  • North Coastal Region
  • North Inland Region
  • South Region

• 2014 Smoking Attributable Mortality Table
• 2013 Smoking Attributable Mortality Table
• 2010 Smoking Attributable Mortality Table

1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics. Underlying Cause of Death 1999-2019 on CDC WONDER Online Database, released in 2020. Data are from the Multiple Cause of Death Files, 1999-2019, as compiled from data provided by the 57 vital statistics jurisdictions through the Vital Statistics Cooperative Program. Accessed at http://wonder.cdc.gov/ucd-icd10.html on July 22, 2021 7:26:10 PM