Table 1.

Age-adjusted mortality and years of life lost (YLL) by sex and year in a suburban region of Kunming.

Year	Mortalitya			YLLb
	Male	Female	All	Male	Female	All
1998	625.8	623.9	622.2	86.3	85.2	86.0
1999	635.8	612.6	625.0	89.9	81.6	86.2
2000	656.6	628.4	644.9	96.0	85.5	91.3
2001	590.3	579.3	585.7	84.2	81.9	83.5
2002	574.4	573.9	574.2	78.1	76.4	77.8
2003	566.1	558.2	563.8	76.7	75.9	76.5

^aAge-adjusted per 100,000 population.

^bAge-adjusted per 1000 population.