Erratum

Hiam L, Dorling D, Harrison D and McKee M. Why has mortality in England and Wales been increasing? An iterative demographic analysis. J R Soc Med 2017; 110: 131–137. DOI: 10.1177/0141076817693599.

Figure 1 is incorrectly labelled, and referred to, as age-standardised mortality rates, but shows crude mortality, which is reflected in the accompanying text. The correct figure, using Office of National Statistics data, ¹ is shown below.

Figure 1.

Age-standardised mortality rate and crude mortality rates, all persons, England and Wales 1994–2015.

The proportionate changes shown in Figure 2 use mid-year to mid-year data, the only source by single year of age available from Office of National Statistics when we wrote the paper. ²

Neither of these alter the main conclusions of the papers.