Table 2. Estimated South African and global self-inflicted, interpersonal violence and road traffic injury mortality rates by age and sex for 2000.

Age group (years)	Males						Females
	South African rate		Global rate		Ratio		South African rate		Global rate		Ratio
	(per 100 000)		(per 100 000)a		SA rate: global rate		(per 100 000)		(per 100 000)a		SA rate: global rate
Homicide/interpersonal violenceb
0–4	14.0		5.9		2.4		11.7		5.1		2.3
5–14	5.6		2.3		2.5		2.6		2.1		1.3
15–29	184.0		19.8		9.3		22.5		4.5		5.0
30–44	180.2		19.1		9.4		31.7		4.5		7.1
45–59	107.7		15.2		7.1		21.0		4.6		4.6
≥60	85.2		13.3		6.4		32.3		4.7		6.9
All agesc	113.4		13.9		8.2		21.0		4.2		5.0
Suicide/self-inflicted violence
0–4	0.0		0.0		–		0.0		0.0		–
5–14	2.1		1.7		1.2		0.8		2.0		0.4
15–29	26.3		15.6		1.7		6.5		12.2		0.5
30–44	29.4		21.5		1.4		8.7		12.4		0.7
45–59	35.0		28.4		1.2		7.7		12.5		0.6
≥60	38.1		44.9		0.8		10.9		22.1		0.5
All agesc	23.3		18.6		1.2		6.1		10.6		0.6
Road traffic injury
0–4	26.7		13.4		2.0		21.3		11.3		1.9
5–14	21.4		11.2		1.9		9.9		8.4		1.2
15–29	51.9		35.7		1.5		16.8		9.2		1.8
30–44	84.2		37.6		2.2		24.4		9.8		2.5
45–59	79.9		39.6		2.0		27.0		12.9		2.1
≥60	81.9		49.0		1.7		44.7		19.0		2.4
All agesc	59.4		32.1		1.8		22.6		11.1		2.0

NIMSS, the national injury mortality surveillance system.
^a Global burden of disease 2000, version 1 estimates. Available at: http://www.who.int/healthinfo/bodgbd2000v1/en/index.html.
^b Using NIMSS data, it was not possible to distinguish deaths due to legal intervention from homicide/interpersonal violence-related deaths, as all these deaths are coded as homicide. Although the proportion of deaths from legal intervention probably is small, it was necessary to combine homicide and legal intervention (other intentional) injuries when comparing this with data from other WHO regions.
^c Age-standardized.