"Figure 6: Avoidable mortality rates for children and young people have fluctuated for all of the UK’s constituent countries from 2001 to 2018","" "Age-standardised avoidable mortality rates for children and young people (aged 0 to 19 years) by persons, UK’s constituent countries, 2001 to 2018","" "","" "Notes","1. Age-standardised mortality rates are expressed per 100,000 population 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 rates" "","" "Year","England","Wales","Scotland","Northern Ireland" "2001","17.7","16","36.6","34.4" "2002","16.8","14.3","36.1","32.4" "2003","15.8","13.9","33","31.7" "2004","15.4","16.2","31.8","30.8" "2005","15.2","16.6","32.1","37.6" "2006","14.2","13.3","28.5","35.7" "2007","13.4","16.2","32","30.5" "2008","13.6","13.1","26.3","36.9" "2009","12.7","15","26.1","31.2" "2010","11.2","13.6","23.3","35.4" "2011","10.2","13.9","23","26.4" "2012","9.9","12.2","19.7","24" "2013","9.6","9.3","19.5","21.1" "2014","10.3","9.2","20.1","25.7" "2015","10.1","10.6","17.2","23.7" "2016","9.3","11.8","20.2","20.9" "2017","9.6","10.3","19","19.3" "2018","9.8","12.1","20.3","24.4"