Community Causes of Death in the Central Region of Ghana, the Missing Piece in Mortality Data

Table 2

Age distribution of Coroner’s cases and their gender.

Age distribution of Coroner’s case	Male	Female	Total	%
Neonate (<1 months)	2	1	3	0.30
Infant (1 month–1 yr)	2	4	6	0.61
Child (13 months–17 yrs)	93	56	149	15.05
Young adult (18 yrs–44 yrs)	389	132	521	52.63
Middle-aged (45 yrs–64 yrs)	179	54	233	23.54
Elderly (≥65 yrs)	54	24	78	7.88
Total	719	271	990	100.00