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1 Lung, liver, stomach, and bowel are the most common causes of cancer death worldwide, accounting for nearly half of all cancer deaths.  Lung cancer causes the most cancer deaths worldwide. Almost a fifth of all cancer deaths worldwide are lung cancers.
Stroke remains the No. 2 cause of death in the world. The stroke death rate â the number of deaths per 100,000 people â went down between 1990 and 2010. However, the number of people having first and recurrent strokes each year went up, reaching 33 million in 2010. Text version of infographic.