Table 7.

 Contribution (in years) of causes of death to change in male life expectancy at birth in first and fourth fourths between 1990 and 1994

Age (years)	Cardiovascular	Cerebrovascular	Respiratory cancer	Other neoplasms	Infectious diseases	Respiratory diseases	Accidents	Alcohol related	Other	Total
Lowest fourth (smallest decrease in life expectancy)
0	−0.003	0	0	0	−0.022	−0.017	−0.002	−0.001	0.103	0.060
1-14	−0.002	0.001	0	−0.026	−0.004	−0.040	−0.026	0.000	−0.012	−0.107
15-34	0.143	0.008	−0.002	0.017	0.018	0.020	0.448	0.106	0.100	0.715
35-64	1.093	0.278	−0.012	0.036	0.117	0.215	0.858	0.467	0.403	2.361
⩾65	0.319	0.108	0.014	0.031	0.001	0.037	0.043	0.015	0.140	0.389
All (%)	1.550 (31)	0.393 (8)	0	0.057 (1)	0.110 (2)	0.215 (4)	1.321 (27)	0.588 (12)	0.735 (15)	4.968 (100)
Highest fourth (largest decrease in life expectancy)
0	0.001	0.001	0	−0.002	−0.003	−0.031	0.016	0	−0.040	−0.058
1-14	0.001	0	0.001	−0.016	0.004	−0.013	0.064	0	0.014	0.053
15-34	0.143	0.011	−0.001	−0.009	0.042	0.062	1.164	0.303	0.171	1.743
35-64	1.580	0.344	−0.024	0.023	0.181	0.467	1.671	1.095	0.652	4.410
⩾65	0.341	0.162	0.003	0	0.006	0.051	0.072	0.030	0.061	0.386
All (%)	2.066 (24)	0.517 (6)	−0.021 (0)	−0.005 (0)	0.230 (3)	0.537 (6)	2.989 (35)	1.428 (17)	0.858 (10)	8.599 (100)