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Description - Figure 12 Age-standardized Potential Years of Life Lost (PYLL) per 100,000 population by Cause of Death, Registered First Nations and General Population, Western Canada, 2001-2002 (average)

Bar graph showing the age-standardized potential years of life lost per 100,000 population by cause of death, registered First Nations and the general population in Western Canada for the years 2001 to 2002.

External causes of morbidity and mortality: First Nations 5211.8, general population 1474.3; Neoplasms: First Nations 1043.6, general population 834.6; Diseases of the circulatory system: First Nations 942.8, general population 459.8; Diseases of the digestive system: First Nations 694.2, general population 132.2; Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period: First Nations 599.3, general population 449.2; Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities: First Nations 527.5, general population 339.3; Diseases of the respiratory system: First Nations 441.2, general population 115.6; Certain infectious and parasitic diseases: First Nations 420.1, general population 100.3; Endocrine, nutritional metabolic diseases: First Nations 362.8, general population 117.1; Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings: First Nations 356.8, general population 211.7.