Pneumonia, cancer, and cardiac arrest have been listed as the leading causes of death for Kenyans over the past five years by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS).

In the Kenya Vital Statistics Report by KNBS, the three ailments were revealed to have been the major causes of loss of life amongst Kenyans from 2020 to 2024 in health facilities.

In 2020, cardiac arrests, also known as cardiopulmonary arrests, accounted for 9,332 registered deaths, the most in the country, and were followed by pneumonia (9,061 deaths) and cancer (6,078 deaths).

This was out of the 99,355 deaths recorded at health facilities.