Male category-specific mortality at age 60-69 years in
the United Kingdom: 1950-2007
Comment: UK male mortality in late middle age fell by 59% between 1967 and 2007. This corresponds to an absolute decline of 2098 yearly deaths per 100 000 men in late middle age,
some 40% of which is attributable to a decrease in coronary heart disease, 13% to a decrease in stroke, 13% to a decrease in lung cancer, 4% to a decrease in all other cancers combined,
and 12% to a decrease in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Mortality from liver cirrhosis increased over this period by
a factor of 3. Vascular mortality plunged below the level of neoplastic mortality in 2002.
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 male mortality in late middle age fell by 59% between 1967 and 2007. This corresponds to an absolute decline of 2098 yearly deaths per 100 000 men in late middle age, some 40% of which is attributable to a decrease in coronary heart disease, 13% to a decrease in stroke, 13% to a decrease in lung cancer, 4% to a decrease in all other cancers combined, and 12% to a decrease in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Mortality from liver cirrhosis increased over this period by a factor of 3. Vascular mortality plunged below the level of neoplastic mortality in 2002.
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.