Deaths according to Cause of Death 
National and Autonomous Cities and Communities results
Standardised mortality rates by cause of death (most frequent causes), sex and level of education. 25 years old and over.
Units: per hundred thousand

	Both genders	Men	Women	
All causes	
    Total	1,138.47	1,462.40	892.65	
    Primary education or lower	1,220.56	1,611.37	978.03	
    Lower secondary education	1,092.44	1,432.37	809.58	
    Upper secondary education	1,032.32	1,295.49	757.93	
    University studies	935.71	1,136.03	691.80	
Ischaemic heart diseases	
    Total	84.02	124.20	53.46	
    Primary education or lower	87.46	134.13	57.89	
    Lower secondary education	79.39	119.06	46.62	
    Upper secondary education	78.83	111.35	44.94	
    University studies	70.73	99.22	37.98	
Cerebrovascular diseases	
    Total	69.32	78.65	61.56	
    Primary education or lower	74.37	86.33	66.45	
    Lower secondary education	65.20	75.48	55.81	
    Upper secondary education	58.69	66.57	49.66	
    University studies	52.66	58.54	44.84	
Bronchial and lung cancer	
    Total	64.70	112.88	26.29	
    Primary education or lower	59.30	119.30	21.53	
    Lower secondary education	70.63	121.76	26.07	
    Upper secondary education	70.80	102.72	35.16	
    University studies	63.27	87.13	33.11	
Dementia	
    Total	54.52	51.92	54.86	
    Primary education or lower	57.51	56.09	57.31	
    Lower secondary education	50.09	47.24	50.66	
    Upper secondary education	45.18	46.95	42.51	
    University studies	41.33	41.68	40.06	
Heart failure	
    Total	48.65	51.92	45.54	
    Primary education or lower	51.51	54.97	48.93	
    Lower secondary education	44.22	48.22	39.91	
    Upper secondary education	39.76	44.03	34.52	
    University studies	38.51	42.25	33.98	
Chronic diseases of the lower respiratory tract	
    Total	39.15	73.41	17.30	
    Primary education or lower	43.41	88.59	19.00	
    Lower secondary education	35.71	65.14	14.70	
    Upper secondary education	35.73	53.93	18.82	
    University studies	26.62	37.97	13.01	
Alzheimer's disease	
    Total	37.99	31.04	41.47	
    Primary education or lower	40.41	33.37	43.48	
    Lower secondary education	35.54	30.08	38.27	
    Upper secondary education	32.54	28.54	35.19	
    University studies	27.60	24.23	30.88	
Colon cancer	
    Total	31.37	44.77	21.46	
    Primary education or lower	30.64	45.46	21.96	
    Lower secondary education	32.23	45.08	21.46	
    Upper secondary education	33.45	45.42	20.78	
    University studies	29.77	37.54	20.00	
Hypertensive disease	
    Total	31.92	29.73	32.33	
    Primary education or lower	34.84	32.57	35.29	
    Lower secondary education	27.88	27.75	27.19	
    Upper secondary education	25.96	26.73	23.95	
    University studies	22.99	23.26	21.95	
Diabetes mellitus	
    Total	26.07	30.50	22.56	
    Primary education or lower	29.91	35.22	26.49	
    Lower secondary education	22.90	28.19	18.52	
    Upper secondary education	18.73	25.61	11.97	
    University studies	15.02	19.39	9.87	
Pneumonia	
    Total	26.83	38.60	19.81	
    Primary education or lower	30.30	44.35	22.72	
    Lower secondary education	24.95	37.75	16.98	
    Upper secondary education	24.09	34.07	15.77	
    University studies	22.71	28.16	16.55	
Renal failure	
    Total	18.34	23.58	15.18	
    Primary education or lower	20.38	25.58	17.79	
    Lower secondary education	16.57	22.68	12.70	
    Upper secondary education	16.24	23.36	10.04	
    University studies	14.54	19.03	9.29	
Breast cancer	
    Total	18.27	0.58	32.40	
    Primary education or lower	19.80	0.63	32.91	
    Lower secondary education	16.62	0.63	30.55	
    Upper secondary education	15.85	0.44	31.97	
    University studies	16.48	0.46	33.80	
Pancreatic cancer	
    Total	20.39	24.49	16.82	
    Primary education or lower	19.39	24.05	16.18	
    Lower secondary education	20.30	24.32	16.42	
    Upper secondary education	20.78	23.90	17.13	
    University studies	21.51	24.87	17.47	
Prostate cancer	
    Total	15.83	40.66	..	
    Primary education or lower	14.46	41.51	..	
    Lower secondary education	16.79	41.57	..	
    Upper secondary education	19.82	40.85	..	
    University studies	19.06	35.36	..	
Notes:
1) Since 2013, data from the Forensic Anatomical Institute of Madrid have been available, a methodological improvement  has been introduced in the process of this statistic, which has allowed the cause of death to be assigned  more precisely in deaths involving judicial intervention. As a result, deaths that were assigned to poorly  defined causes have been reassigned to specific external causes. Therefore, this fact must be taken into  account when making comparisons with previous years.

 The standardised rates allow comparisons between different levels of education, as well as  temporary and sex level comparisons, by using an age structure common within the standard European population as of 2011.

 Category 'Upper Secondary education' includes the Higher Level Training Cycles and equivalents.
Source: National Statistics Institute