Male category-specific mortality at age 1-14 years in
the United Kingdom: 1950-2007
Comment: Male mortality at age 1-14 years in the UK fell by 71% between 1967 and 2007. This corresponds to an absolute decline of 41 yearly deaths per 100 000 boys this age, some 22% of which is attributable to a
decrease in motor vehicle crash and other forms of road transport injury (including pedestrian and pedal cycle injury), 9% to a decrease in drowning, and 13% to a decrease in other forms of injury.
A further 6% of the overall absolute decline is attributable to a decrease in leukaemia, 7% to a decrease in all other cancers combined, 11% to a decrease in pneumonia, and 6% to decrease in infectious disease
(besides pneumonia).
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: Male mortality at age 1-14 years in the UK fell by 71% between 1967 and 2007. This corresponds to an absolute decline of 41 yearly deaths per 100 000 boys this age, some 22% of which is attributable to a decrease in motor vehicle crash and other forms of road transport injury (including pedestrian and pedal cycle injury), 9% to a decrease in drowning, and 13% to a decrease in other forms of injury. A further 6% of the overall absolute decline is attributable to a decrease in leukaemia, 7% to a decrease in all other cancers combined, 11% to a decrease in pneumonia, and 6% to decrease in infectious disease (besides pneumonia).
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.