The new Global Burden of Disease studies are out.

There is lots of information to look at on https://vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-compare/

And the Lancet has several excellent papers on the global dimensions of measures of suffering. http://thelancet.com/gbd

If you want to look at Myanmar, and set the controls on the left to Cause, DALYs, Myanmar, All, and Both.

Cardiovascular disease, mostly heart attacks and stroke, is the number one problem. Closely followed by all the cancers. Diabetes is increasing.

TB is a bigger cause of disability and death than HIV.

And road injuries are greater than TB.

The cancers caused by betel are a small cause of death and disability.

You can see a Burmese language diagram like this based on slightly older data at http://www.kyannmar.org/.

Jamie