In order to provide a consistent grouping and ranking standard, the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) prepared a List of 113 Selected Causes of Death. Fifty causes on that list plus two others are eligible to be ranked as leading causes of death (List of 52 Rankable Causes of Death).

NJDOH's Center for Health Statistics derived this List of Major Causes of Death from the 52 Cause List by grouping rare (fewer than 100 deaths per year) but rankable causes as well as unrankable causes into one residual group for ease of use and tabulation. For more information about the NCHS rankings see Cause of Death Ranking on the NCHS website.

A full list of ICD-10 codes is available at http://apps.who.int/classifications/icd10/browse/.

	Cause of Death	ICD-10 Codes	Note
1	Enterocolitis due to Clostridium difficile	A04.7	Common name: C. diff
2	Septicemia	A40-A41
3	Viral hepatitis	B15-B19
4	Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease	B20-B24
5	Malignant neoplasms	C00-C97	Common name: Cancer
6	In situ neoplasms, benign neoplasms and neoplasms of uncertain or unknown behavior	D00-D48
7	Anemias	D50-D64
8	Diabetes mellitus	E10-E14
9	Nutritional deficiencies	E40-E64
10	Parkinson disease	G20-G21
11	Alzheimer disease	G30
12	Diseases of heart	I00-I09, I11, I13, I20-I51	Common name: Heart disease
13	Essential hypertension and hypertensive renal disease	I10, I12, I15
14	Cerebrovascular diseases	I60-I69	Common name: Stroke
15	Atherosclerosis	I70
16	Aortic aneurysm and dissection	I71
17	Influenza and pneumonia	J09-J18
18	Chronic lower respiratory diseases (CLRD)	J40-J47	Includes chronic bronchitis, emphysema, asthma, and other CLRDs
19	Pneumonitis due to solids and liquids	J69
20	Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis	K70, K73-K74
21	Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis	N00-N07, N17-N19, N25-N27	Common name: Kidney disease
22	Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period	P00-P96
23	Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities	Q00-Q99	Common names: Birth defects or congenital anomalies
24	Coronavirus disease 2019	U07.1	Common name: COVID-19
25	Unintentional injuries	V01-X59, Y85-Y86
26	Intentional self-harm (suicide)	X60-X84, Y87.0, *U03
27	Assault (homicide)	X85-Y09, Y87.1, *U01-*U02
28	Complications of medical and surgical care	Y40-Y84, Y88

The ICD codes for terrorism are preceded with '*' because they are not used internationally. See Classification of Death and Injury Resulting from Terrorism on the CDC website for more information.