Female category-specific mortality at age 50-59 years in
the United Kingdom: 1950-2007
Comment: UK female mortality at age 50-59 years fell by 45% between 1967 and 2007. This corresponds to an absolute decline of 299 yearly deaths per 100 000 women in this age range,
some 24% of which is attributable to a decrease in coronary heart disease, 19% to a decrease in stroke, and 8% to a decrease in breast cancer. Over this period, lung cancer mortality increased by
22%, and mortality from liver cirrhosis increased by
a factor of 4. Vascular mortality fell below the level of cancer mortality in 1959.
Categories: For descriptions of what the categories mean, and examples of the causes of death they include, see the
Information about Causes of Death page.
Method: Mortality rates calculated using data from the World Health Organization and the
United Nations Population Division,
then standardised for age (by taking unweighted averages of component rates) and smoothed (as weighted 3-year moving averages). For details, see
the Info page.
Caution: Trends can reflect not only changes in disease occurrence or treatment, but also changes in how a cause of death is
defined or coded.
Comment: UK female mortality at age 50-59 years fell by 45% between 1967 and 2007. This corresponds to an absolute decline of 299 yearly deaths per 100 000 women in this age range, some 24% of which is attributable to a decrease in coronary heart disease, 19% to a decrease in stroke, and 8% to a decrease in breast cancer. Over this period, lung cancer mortality increased by 22%, and mortality from liver cirrhosis increased by a factor of 4. Vascular mortality fell below the level of cancer mortality in 1959.
Categories: For descriptions of what the categories mean, and examples of the causes of death they include, see the Information about Causes of Death page.
Method: Mortality rates calculated using data from the World Health Organization and the United Nations Population Division, then standardised for age (by taking unweighted averages of component rates) and smoothed (as weighted 3-year moving averages). For details, see the Info page.
Caution: Trends can reflect not only changes in disease occurrence or treatment, but also changes in how a cause of death is defined or coded.