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Perhaps in poor healthcare locales the death certificate just says "dead". Some people might not see a doctor at any stage of the disease.

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You might be able to claim that for some countries, but all European data should be reliable, all countries have reasonably good cause of death recording.

I'm not sure any European healthcare system rates as terrible, compared to the global average.

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