Statistics: Heart disease leading cause of death in Czechia

A total of 57,000 people died in Czechia in the first six months of last year, which was five percent fewer than in the previous year and about the same number as in 2020, the Czech Statistics Office announced in a press release on Wednesday.

The three most common causes of death were cardiovascular diseases, including coronary heart disease, heart attack and brain stroke. There was a significant drop in deaths where Covid-19 was listed as the main cause, dropping from the fourth most common cause to the 18th.

Coronary heart disease has long been the most commonly reported cause of death in Czechia, with the exception of 2021, when it was replaced by Covid-19. Almost 7,600 people succumbed to it during the first six months of 2023, which was nine percent drop on the previous year.