"Figure 5: Scotland is the only country to see a decrease over time in male rates of alcohol-specific deaths","" "Age-standardised alcohol-specific death rates per 100,000 males; UK constituent countries, deaths registered between 2001 and 2019","" "","" "Notes","1. Rates are expressed per 100,000 population and standardised to the 2013 European Standard Population. 2. Figures for Scotland and Northern Ireland include deaths of non-residents. However, figures for England and Wales (separately) exclude deaths of non-residents and are based on November 2020 boundaries. 3. Figures are for deaths registered in each calendar year." "Unit","Age-standardised rate per 100,000 males" "","" "Year","England","Northern Ireland","Scotland","Wales" "2001","12.3","17.0","39.0","13.6" "2002","12.7","20.5","41.5","13.0" "2003","13.7","16.2","42.6","14.6" "2004","13.4","19.3","40.9","14.9" "2005","14.3","20.7","39.7","14.9" "2006","14.6","20.6","41.2","15.5" "2007","14.5","21.5","37.6","18.0" "2008","15.5","21.9","37.8","19.6" "2009","14.3","21.2","32.0","18.2" "2010","14.8","22.1","33.4","17.5" "2011","15.1","20.3","30.8","16.7" "2012","13.7","19.7","26.7","17.6" "2013","14.1","18.3","27.6","17.0" "2014","14.4","18.7","28.1","15.5" "2015","13.9","22.1","27.7","15.4" "2016","14.5","22.2","30.9","17.4" "2017","15.0","25.0","30.3","18.0" "2018","14.8","22.7","29.4","17.7" "2019","15.0","24.2","25.2","15.1"