The World from PRX

This map shows which disease is most likely to kill you depending on where you live

Most of the world will die of heart disease.

Lifestyle
SKSimran Khosla

A cordoned-off wing of the extreme drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB), a near untreatable strain of the disease, at the Brooklyn Infectious Disease Hospital in Cape Town.

Pieter Bauermeister

Using data from the World Health Organization, we labeled every country in the world with the disease that caused the most deaths within the nation.

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Africa

Middle East & Asia

Europe

Central America & the Caribbean

South America