"Figure 3: Age-standardised mortality rate by sex, England and Wales, 1995 to 2015","" "","" "","" "Notes","1. Death figures are based on deaths registered rather than deaths occurring in a calendar year 2. Deaths for 2015 are provisional and will be finalised with the release of the 'Death Registrations Summary Tables' in July 2016 3. Age-standardised mortality rates per 100,000 population, standardised to the 2013 European Standard Population. Age-standardised rates are used to allow comparison between populations which may contain different proportions of people of different ages 4. The lower and upper confidence limits have been provided. These form a confidence interval, which is a measure of the statistical precision of an estimate and shows the range of uncertainty around the estimated figure. Calculations based on small numbers of events are often subject to random fluctuations. As a general rule, if the confidence interval around one figure overlaps with the interval around another, we cannot say with certainty that there is more than a chance difference between the two figures 5. Populations used in the calculation of rates for 2015 are 2014-based population projections. These will be finalised with the release of the 2015 mid-year population estimates in June 2016 6. Figures include deaths of non-residents" "Unit","" "","" "","Persons","Males","Females" "1995","1392","1760","1155" "1996","1373","1724","1145" "1997","1351","1683","1133" "1998","1327","1646","1114" "1999","1320","1624","1114" "2000","1266","1559","1068" "2001","1236","1512","1046" "2002","1231","1497","1046" "2003","1232","1482","1055" "2004","1163","1401","993" "2005","1144","1369","981" "2006","1104","1324","945" "2007","1092","1299","939" "2008","1092","1292","943" "2009","1034","1230","887" "2010","1017","1201","877" "2011","979","1160","842" "2012","987","1159","856" "2013","986","1158","853" "2014","953","1121","822" "2015","993","1156","863"