Table 1. Male to female ratio of age-standardized mortality rate from cardiovascular diseases.

Year	All diseases of circulatory system (I00-I99)	Total heart diseases (I00-I13, I20-I51)	Hypertensive heart diseases (I10-I13)	Ischemic heart diseases (I20-I25)	Myocardial infarction (I21-I23)	Heart failure (I50)	Cerebrovascular diseases (I60-I69)
1983	1.85	1.94	2.23	2.18	2.18	1.34	1.75
1984	1.82	1.88	2.13	1.99	1.91	1.72	1.74
1985	1.82	1.90	2.10	2.15	2.27	1.48	1.72
1986	1.79	1.85	2.01	2.02	2.01	1.49	1.73
1987	1.71	1.78	1.90	1.86	1.91	1.53	1.65
1988	1.66	1.70	1.81	1.79	1.76	1.42	1.60
1989	1.64	1.67	1.80	1.66	1.62	1.21	1.61
1990	1.60	1.61	1.69	1.72	1.66	1.24	1.58
1991	1.53	1.55	1.66	1.79	1.80	1.10	1.51
1992	1.47	1.47	1.51	1.78	1.82	1.18	1.46
1993	1.49	1.47	1.46	1.95	2.03	1.30	1.51
1994	1.49	1.47	1.46	2.07	2.14	1.22	1.50
1995	1.46	1.48	1.38	2.06	2.13	1.08	1.45
1996	1.49	1.51	1.32	2.02	2.08	1.20	1.46
1997	1.51	1.51	1.31	1.95	2.07	1.13	1.49
1998	1.50	1.51	1.18	1.96	2.03	1.18	1.47
1999	1.46	1.50	1.19	1.87	1.96	1.07	1.43
2000	1.42	1.39	1.00	1.76	1.82	1.03	1.42
2001	1.44	1.37	1.03	1.73	1.84	0.82	1.46
2002	1.39	1.33	0.88	1.70	1.82	0.82	1.41
2003	1.38	1.31	0.89	1.63	1.73	0.86	1.40
2004	1.41	1.36	0.85	1.65	1.76	0.97	1.43
2005	1.42	1.38	0.92	1.62	1.66	0.96	1.43
2006	1.42	1.34	0.89	1.60	1.69	0.93	1.47
2007	1.42	1.35	0.88	1.67	1.75	0.93	1.45
2008	1.45	1.34	0.89	1.73	1.81	0.89	1.51
2009	1.46	1.35	0.84	1.77	1.83	0.87	1.54
2010	1.45	1.35	0.84	1.71	1.77	0.91	1.53
2011	1.43	1.34	0.88	1.68	1.76	0.91	1.51
2012	1.44	1.37	0.84	1.75	1.80	0.94	1.51
2013	1.44	1.39	0.85	1.73	1.74	0.94	1.46
2014	1.44	1.38	0.78	1.73	1.74	0.93	1.50
2015	1.43	1.38	0.78	1.76	1.76	0.88	1.49
2016	1.42	1.36	0.81	1.82	1.82	0.81	1.48
2017	1.41	1.36	0.80	1.90	1.92	0.85	1.46
2018	1.39	1.35	0.77	1.87	1.84	0.88	1.43
Median	1.46	1.39	1.02	1.78	1.82	1.00	1.49

Age distribution of the total Korean population in 2018 was used as the standard population.