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Indicator: Death rates from cancer, circulatory disease, accidents and suicides F1
Death rates - cancer, circulatory disease, accidents, suicides: 1970 to 2001  
Indicator Chart
Change since
tick 1970
tick 1990
tick 1996

Coverage: England & Wales

Source: ONS

Objective: Deliver key health targets
  • Death rates from circulatory diseases (people under 75) and accidents have halved since the 1970s and death rates from cancer and suicides have fallen during and since the 1990s.
  • In 2001, death rates per 100,000 were 520 for circulatory diseases, 399 for cancer, 18 for accidents and 32 for suicides and undetermined deaths.

Page last modified: 21 April 2004  |  Page published: 21 April 2004