Top 10 Deadly diseases
Disease
Annual
mortality
rate
Annual
infection
rate
1.
Lower respiratory infections
4 million
—
2.
HIV/AIDS
3 million
39.4 million1
3.
Malaria
1–5 million
300–515 million
4.
Diarrhea
2.2 million
4 billion
5.
Tuberculosis
2 million
8 million
6.
Measles
530,000
30 million
7.
Whooping cough
200,000–300,000
20–40 million
8.
Tetanus
214,000
500,000
9.
Meningitis
174,000
1 million +
10.
Syphilis
157,000
12.2 million1