Main causes of death^a among adolescents and young adults (15–24 years), by gender.

<p>NOTE. RR^fem, Relative risk for females compared with males; CI, confidence interval; χ², chi-squared.</p>a<p>Statistics presented exclude deaths with undetermined cause (n = 174); of 238 NCD deaths, 13 ‘other’ NCDs are excluded from main cause of death analysis.</p>b<p>CD, communicable diseases (HIV, TB, malaria, other common infections).</p>c<p>HIV/TB is the combination of all deaths diagnosed with either TB or HIV as the cause of death.</p>d<p>Significantly higher proportion of deaths in males, inverse RR^males presented [in brackets].