Table 3

IRR with 95% CI for 3-year lagged mean number of deaths in UK compared with EU15+ in 2015* for children aged 15–19 years old by sex

	Boys 15–19						Girls 15–19
	Deaths†	% of total	IRR	P value	Lower CI	Upper CI	Deaths†	% of total	IRR	P value	Lower CI	Upper CI
Communicable/maternal
Common infections	15	2.5	2.14	0.01	1.19	3.86	17	5.3	2.91	<0.001	1.62	5.21
NCD
Neoplasms	81	13.1	0.94	0.60	0.74	1.19	63	19.6	1.04	0.75	0.80	1.37
Cardiovascular diseases	29	4.7	1.18	0.43	0.79	1.75	16	5.0	1.18	0.54	0.69	2.02
Chronic respiratory diseases	8	1.3	1.54	0.28	0.70	3.37	8	2.6	2.68	0.02	1.17	6.09
Digestive diseases	7	1.1	2.19	0.08	0.90	5.32	8	2.6	3.60	0.0041	1.50	8.62
Neurological disorders	43	6.9	1.60	0.01	1.14	2.25	27	8.4	2.02	0.002	1.30	3.12
DUBE	30	4.7	1.74	0.01	1.15	2.62	30	9.4	1.81	0.0045	1.20	2.72
MSK							4	1.4	3.42	0.04	1.05	11.12
Other NCD	16	2.6	0.85	0.54	0.50	1.43	18	5.5	1.15	0.58	0.69	1.93
Injuries
Transport injuries	152	24.4	0.70	<0.001	0.59	0.83	57	17.8	0.77	0.07	0.59	1.02
Unintentional injuries	53	8.5	0.92	0.56	0.69	1.23	13	4.1	1.05	0.87	0.59	1.89
Self-harm	168	27.0	1.05	0.55	0.89	1.24	51	15.7	0.70	0.02	0.52	0.94
Interpersonal violence	8	1.2	0.46	0.04	0.22	0.96

Causes contributing to less than 1% of total deaths are not shown.
Causes where there were significant differences in mortality between the UK and EU15+ are highlighted in red.
*For EU15+ countries without data to 2015, we used lagged mean number of deaths over the 3 years prior to the latest available data year in Poisson regression models for all countries except Greece, where data were only available for 2014.
†Mean annual number of deaths between 2013 and 2015 in the UK rounded to the nearest whole number.
DUBE, diabetes/urological/blood/endocrine disorders; EU15+, European Union countries pre-2004, Norway, Australia and Canada; IRR, incidence rate ratio; MSK, musculoskeletal disorders; NCD, non-communicable disease.