Table 15 Deaths by accidents. 2003

15	Deaths by accidents. 2003¹

ICD-10 Injury by external cause	Total	0-14 years	15-17 years	18-24 years	25-44 years	45-64 years	65-79 years	80 years and over


V01-X59,Y85-Y86 Accidents, total
Males	1 113	23	18	81	275	230	189	297
Females	785	14	4	20	69	81	97	500
V01-V89 Landtransport accidents
Males	235	15	14	41	89	32	24	20
Females	80	8	1	9	16	18	11	17
V95-V97 Air and space transport accidents
Males	3	-	-	-	1	2	-	-
Females	2	-	-	1	1	-	-	-
V91,V93-V94 Water transport accidents, not causing drowning and submersion
Males	7	-	-	-	1	2	4	-
Females	2	-	-	1	-	1	-	-
V90,V92 Water- transport-related drowning and submersion
Males	25	-	-	-	6	14	5	-
Females	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
W65-W74 Accidental drowning and submersion
Males	60	2	1	4	15	17	16	5
Females	10	2	-	-	3	2	2	1
W00-W19 Falls
Males	374	-	1	5	11	40	93	224
Females	469	1	1	-	2	11	51	403
W32-W34 Discharge from firearms
Males	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Females	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
W75-W84 Other accidental threats to breathing
Males	33	4	-	1	4	7	9	8
Females	24	1	-	-	-	3	6	14
W85-W87 Exposure to electric current
Males	4	-	-	-	3	1	-	-
Females	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
X00-X09 Exposure to smoke, fire and flames
Males	36	1	-	2	8	12	8	5
Females	16	-	-	-	4	3	3	6
X20-X29 Contact with venomous animals and plants
Males	1	-	-	-	-	-	1	-
Females	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
X30-X39 Exposure to forces of nature
Males	13	-	-	1	4	4	2	2
Females	11	-	-	-	2	4	5	-
X40-X49 Accidental poisoning by and exposure to noxious substances
Males	226	-	1	24	112	76	11	2
Females	93	-	2	9	38	36	5	3
Rest V01-X59 Other accidents
Males	78	1	-	3	18	19	11	26
Females	54	2	-	-	2	1	12	37
Y85-Y86 Sequelae of accidents
Males	18	-	1	-	3	4	5	5
Females	24	-	-	-	1	2	2	19

¹	Following recommadations from WHO all acute intoxication deaths (F10-F19 with fourth digit 0) have been moved from chapter V to chapter XX in ICD-10. For the same reason many pneumonia deaths have been coded differently than in earlier years, cfr. DS 30/3-05, Causes of Death 2003.