The mortality rate ascribed to injury and poisoning is higher for Russia's women than it is for America's men. Although the Russian male mortality rate from "external causes" was reportedly significantly lower in 1995 than it had been in 1994, it was still almost three times higher than in Mexico or Venezuela. Under prevailing cause-of-death patterns, the risk of death for a Russian male born in 1995 was nearly 1 in 4 for dying from external trauma, while in Britain, the risk was about 1 in 30 (World Health Statistics Annual, 1996).