Introduction:

Attention to adolescence should be directed towards the promotion of behaviors that are reflected in mortality indicators.

Objective:

Characterize mortality and its causes in adolescents between 10-18 years of age who died in the decade 2009-2018.

Methods:

A descriptive, retrospective, cross-sectional study was conducted at "Juan Manuel Márquez" Pediatric Teaching Hospital. The 164 teenagers aged 10-18 who died constituted the sample. Hospital movement records, medical records and Pathological Anatomy reports of the deceased were the sources of information used. Among the variables studied were: age, sex, origin, cause of death and year of occurrence.

Results:

The mortality rate was less than 1/100 discharges; deaths predominated in the group of 15-18 years (51.9 %), the female sex (50.6 %) and being from Havana (53.4 %). Tumors and malignant diseases caused almost half of the deaths (48.7%), followed by unintentional injuries (19.7%).

Conclusions:

Mortality in adolescents was similar in both sexes and ages, with a tendency to decrease, where malignant tumors and unintentional lesions were the main causes that occurred throughout the period.

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