OECD Regions at a Glance 2009

This third edition provides the latest comparable data and trends across regions in OECD countries, including a special focus on the spatial dimension for innovation. It relies on the OECD Regional database, the most comprehensive set of statistics at the sub-national level on demography, economic and labour market performance, education, healthcare, environmental outputs and knowledge-based activities comparable among the OECD countries. This publication provides a dynamic link (StatLink) for each graph and map, which directs the user to a web page where the corresponding data are available in Excel®.
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Health: Age-adjusted mortality rate
The health status of populations is measured by mortality rates, which are age-adjusted to eliminate differences in mortality rates due to different population structures. A value of the age-adjusted mortality rate higher than the OECD average, therefore, indicates that after taking into account the differences in age, that country’s mortality rate is higher than the OECD average.
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