"Figure 3: Female age-standardised mortality rates, for three categories of cause of death, 2002 and 2012","" "England and Wales","" "","" "Notes","1. The ASMRs for 2012 have been calculated using mid-2012 population estimates based on the 2011 Census. Rates for 2002 have been recalculated using revised mid-2002 population estimates which take account of the 2011 Census and therefore may differ from previously published figures 2. These rates are for all ages and are standardised to the 1976 European standard population, expressed per million population 3. These categories correspond to the three chapters of ICD-10 with the largest number of deaths in England and Wales" "Unit","Deaths per million population" "","" "","2002","2012" "Circulatory diseases","1945","1118" "Cancer","1635","1471" "Respiratory diseases","675","581"