Mortality from external causes

Targets and indicators for Health 2020 version 3:
http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/health-policy/health-2020-the-european-policy-for-health-and-well-being/publications/2016/targets-and-indicators-for-health-2020.-version-3-2016

European Health Information Initiative:
http://www.euro.who.int/en/data-and-evidence/european-health-information-initiative-ehii

The European Health Statistics App:
http://www.euro.who.int/en/data-and-evidence/the-european-health-statistics-app

(6) 1.3.a. Age-standardized mortality rates from all external causes and injuries, disaggregated by sex (ICD-10 codes V01–V99, W00–W99, X00–X99 and Y00–Y98)

The number of deaths per 100 000 population is influenced by the age distribution of the population. Two populations with the same age-specific mortality rates for a particular cause of death will have different overall death rates if the age distributions of their populations are different. Agestandardized mortality rates adjust for differences in the age distribution of the population by applying the observed age-specific mortality rates for each population to a standard population.

The age-standardized mortality rate is a weighted average of the age-specific mortality rates per 100 000 people, where the weights are the proportion of people in the corresponding age groups of the WHO standard population. The age-standardized mortality rate is calculated using the direct method: it represents what the crude rate would have been if the population had the same age distribution as the standard European population.
ICD-10 codes: V01–V99, W00–W99, X00–X99, Y00–Y98.

ICD-10 codes used for the calculation of this indicator: V01-V99, W00-W99, X00-X99 and Y00-Y98.