Mortality rate of heart diseases in urban and rural China 2021, by gender
In the rural areas of China, heart diseases registered a much higher mortality rate than that in urban regions mainly due to a higher proportion of elderly. In 2021, the mortality rate of heart diseases among male residents in rural China stood at 192.09 deaths per 100,000 population, whereas the figure was 171.26 deaths per 100,000 population in urban China.