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Reports in the month of May 2016 claimed that in 2015, pneumonia dislodged malaria as the top killer of Kenyans with deaths resulting from HIV, Tuberculosis (TB) and meningitis declining. This brief will be looking at the registered deaths in Kenya by major causes over a five-year period.
Chart 1 above shows the registered deaths by diseases causing them from 2012 to 2016. In 2012, malaria was the leading killer disease, followed by pneumonia, cancer. HIV/Aids was the lowest.
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