"Figure 3: Avoidable mortality rates for neoplasms decreased in 2019 for all UK constituent countries, however, this was only statistically significant in England ","" "Age-standardised avoidable mortality rates for neoplasms by persons, UK’s constituent countries, 2001 to 2019","" "","" "Notes","1. Age-standardised mortality rates are expressed per 100,000 people and standardised to the 2013 European Standard Population. Age-standardised mortality rates are used to allow comparison between populations that may contain different proportions of people of different ages. 2. Deaths of non-residents are excluded for England, Wales and Northern Ireland and included for Scotland. 3. Figures are for deaths registered in each calendar year." "Unit","Age-standardised mortality rate per 100,000 people" "","" "Year","England","Northern Ireland","Scotland","Wales" "2001","106.7","113.3","138.0","115.0" "2002","105.5","108.8","137.1","113.0" "2003","102.5","109.7","132.0","106.2" "2004","100.8","110.3","130.4","106.1" "2005","99.5","102.1","128.9","108.6" "2006","98.2","106.4","127.6","108.6" "2007","97.6","102.7","125.1","107.5" "2008","96.8","104.7","122.8","106.5" "2009","94.8","104.4","121.3","102.5" "2010","93.2","101.6","117.6","97.7" "2011","92.3","94.7","119.2","96.2" "2012","90.8","95.5","116.8","96.3" "2013","89.4","97.8","114.1","92.4" "2014","87.5","97.5","110.6","96.2" "2015","85.9","96.9","110.2","92.5" "2016","85.0","95.9","106.4","92.0" "2017","82.8","94.3","104.4","92.2" "2018","80.5","91.0","104.4","88.1" "2019","78.7","86.9","102.4","88.0"