The EU15 comprised the following 15 countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Source: OECD Health Data 2010 and Rosstat. Taken individually, different categories of NCDs and injuries make up the ten leading causes of death in the Russian Federation and account for 90% of deaths in the Russian population as a whole (Rosstat, 2008). Standardised mortality rates (SMR) for cerebrovascular diseases and ischaemic heart diseases are twice as large as the OECD average and are ten times larger than the best performing OECD countries (Figure 3.3).