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Table 1 Age-standardized death rates per 100,000 residents for several external causes of death and proportion of all external deaths categorized as due to events of undetermined intent (EUI) among select industrialized nations, 2000–2011

From: A method for reclassifying cause of death in cases categorized as “event of undetermined intent”

Nation

Years

Cause of death (rates per 100,000 residents)

EUI % share of all external causes

All external causes

Non-Transport accident

Suicide

Homicide

EUI

Australia

2001–2011

35.5

13.7

10.3

1.1

1.2

3.4

Austria

2002–2011

40.9

14.8

14.0

0.7

1.3

3.3

Belgium

2003–2009

49.5

17.9

17.2

1.3

1.8

3.7

Canada

2000–2009

39.4

15.4

10.8

1.5

1.7

4.4

Czech Republic

2000–2011

54.6

25.3

13.4

1.0

3.5

6.4

Denmark

2000–2011

37.6

16.7

10.5

0.9

2.2

5.9

Finland

2000–2011

67.0

35.3

18.8

2.2

1.6

2.4

France

2000–2009

49.5

21.5

15.8

0.7

0.8

1.5

Germany

2000–2011

30.9

10.2

10.5

0.6

2.2

7.1

Hungary

2000–2011

68.9

28.7

23.6

1.9

1.3

1.9

Italy

2003, 2006–2010

28.2

12.1

5.4

0.9

0.1

0.4

Netherlands

2000–2011

27.2

11.0

8.6

1.0

0.4

1.3

Norway

2000–2011

41.3

22.1

11.1

0.9

0.1

0.2

Poland

2000–2011

60.9

23.2

14.7

1.4

6.0

9.8

Romania

2000–2010

59.1

27.9

11.8

2.8

1.2

2.1

Russia

2000–2011

186.2

82.2

29.1

20.8

28.0

15.1

Spain

2000–2011

30.2

11.7

6.6

0.9

0.2

0.6

Sweden

2000–2010

38.7

16.4

11.8

1.0

3.1

8.0

United Kingdom

2001–2010

28.1

11.9

6.5

0.4

3.3

11.8

United States

2000–2010

54.9

20.0

11.0

6.0

1.6

2.9

  1. Note: We used the European population standard (World Health Organization, European health for all database, [http://data.euro.who.int/hfadb/]) and we include in the table data only for nation-years in which the ICD-10 was used. For Russia, information is based on vital statistics data available online at http://www.demogr.nes.ru/index.php/en/demogr_indicat/data_description. For all other nations, information is based on the WHO Mortality Database that is available online at http://www.who.int/healthinfo/mortality_data/en/