Causes of death by country, sex and age group
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In 2005 in United Kingdom, England and Wales the leading causes of death for men in that age group were:- 117 deaths from:
- Intentional self-harm by hanging, strangulation and suffocation - Intentional self-harm by hanging, strangulation and suffocation, home (X700)
- 54 deaths from:
- Accidental poisoning by and exposure to narcotics and psychodysleptics [hallucinogens], not elsewhere classified - Accidental poisoning by and exposure to narcotics and psychodysleptics [hallucinogens], not elsewhere classified, home (X420)
- 52 deaths from:
- Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of opioids - Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of opioids, harmful use (F111)
- 46 deaths from:
- Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of opioids - Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of opioids, dependence syndrome (F112)
- 36 deaths from:
- Epilepsy - Epilepsy, unspecified (G409)
- 35 deaths from:
- Alcoholic liver disease - Alcoholic liver disease, unspecified (K709)
- 33 deaths from:
- Intentional self-harm by hanging, strangulation and suffocation - Intentional self-harm by hanging, strangulation and suffocation, other specified places (X708)
All data comes from the World Health Organisation Statistical Information System. Causes of death are coded using the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10).
The numbers in brackets represent your chance of dying of that cause in that year. These are calculated as (deaths of that cause in that country, age group and sex that year) / (population of that country, age group and sex that year).
You can download the original data from the WHO Mortality Database.