Table 2

Global burden of disease and injury attributable to selected risk factors, 1990

Risk factor
Deaths (thousands)
As % of total deaths
YLLs (thousands)
As % of total YLLs
YLDs (thousands)
As % of total YLDs
DALYs (thousands)
As % of total DALYs

Malnutrition
5 881
11.7
199 486
22.0
20 089
4.2
219 575
15.9
Poor water supply sanitation and personal and domestic hygiene
2 668
5.3
85 520
9.4
7 872
1.7
93 392
6.8
Unsafe sex
1 095
2.2
27 602
3.0
21 100
4.5
48 702
3.5
Tobacco
3 038
6.0
26 217
2.9
9 965
2.1
36 182
2.6
Alcohol
774
1.5
19 287
2.1
28 400
6.0
47 687
3.5
Occupation
1 129
2.2
22 493
2.5
15 394
3.3
37 887
2.7
Hypertension
2 918
5.8
18 665
1.9
1 411
0.3
19 076
1.4
Physical inactivity
1 991
3.9
11 353
1.3
2 300
0.5
13 653
1.0
Illicit drugs
100
0.2
2 634
0.3
5 834
1.2
8 467
0.6
Air pollution
568
1.1
5 625
0.6
1 630
0.3
7 254
0.5

Source: Murray and Lopez (10)

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