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Deaths among the Dutch population by main primary causes of death, age (at time of death) and sex

Euthanasia should under certain circumstances be allowed, according to 87 percent of the adult population in the Netherlands.

Dementia was again the main cause of death in 2016 with over 15 thousand related cases.

Today, Statistics Netherlands reports that 12.5 thousand Dutch people died from the effects of dementia last year.

In 2014, over 139 thousand people deceased in the Netherlands. The number of deaths from an acute heart infarct in the Netherlands has been declining steadily since the 1970s, a trend which continued...