"Figure 3: Female age-standardised mortality rates, for three categories of cause of death, 2001 and 2011","" "England and Wales","" "","" "Notes","1. The ASMRs for 2001 are calculated using the mid-2001 population estimates based on the 2001 Census. 2. The ASMRs for 2011 are calculated using the mid-2011 population estimates based on the 2011 Census. 3. These rates are for all ages and are standardised to the European standard population, expressed per million population; they allow comparisons between populations with different age structures, including between males and females and over time. 4. These categories correspond to the three chapters of ICD–10 with the largest number of deaths in England and Wales. " "Unit","Rate per million population" "","" "","2001","2011" "Circulatory diseases","1986","1110" "Cancer","1647","1478" "Respiratory diseases","648","573"