Table 8.

 Contribution (in years) of causes of death to change in female 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	0.001	0	0.004	0.019	−0.006	0.007	0.001	0.215	0.240
1-14	−0.003	−0.001	−0.001	−0.016	−0.008	−0.023	0.021	−0.001	−0.002	−0.031
15-34	0.021	−0.004	−0.004	−0.018	0.003	−0.009	0.081	0.023	0.000	0.072
35-64	0.487	0.146	0.005	0.036	0.017	0.018	0.249	0.218	0.161	0.850
⩾65	0.341	0.143	0.004	0.031	0.001	−0.026	0.020	0.013	0.387	0.573
All (%)	0.846 (33)	0.285 (11)	0.004 (0)	0.037 (1)	0.032 (1)	−0.046 (−2)	0.377 (15)	0.254 (10)	0.762 (30)	2.550 (100)
Highest fourth (largest decrease in life expectancy)
0	0	0.001	0	−0.002	0.009	−0.001	0.013	0	0.021	0.042
1-14	0.001	0	0	−0.013	0.004	−0.010	0.070	−0.001	0.005	0.054
15-34	0.051	0.001	0	−0.008	0.017	0.023	0.332	0.083	0.040	0.486
35-64	0.792	0.269	−0.002	0.015	0.058	0.124	0.578	0.562	0.279	1.882
⩾65	0.373	0.244	−0.006	−0.011	0.007	0.008	0.040	0.020	0.143	0.444
All (%)	1.215 (29)	0.514 (12)	−0.008 (0)	−0.021 (0)	0.095 (2)	0.144 (3)	1.033 (25)	0.663 (16)	0.487 (12)	4.123 (100)