Abstract
METHODS: This is an ecological study that aimed to understand the behaviour of deaths from external causes in the population older than 60 years old in all Brazilian states. The data was collected using the Brazilian Mortality Information System and the population data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics and from the SUS Informatics Department organized in historic series from 1995 to 2010. 
 RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: It is not possible to deny that deaths from external causes in elder citizens is not in an increasing and statistically significant tendency in most Brazilian states. This brings preoccupation about the issue, since discussions on the subjects are limited in the country, which makes this study good for future references in the field.
Highlights
A well-known fact for all mankind is that the population of the world is aging. Some impact phenomena such as the lower in the birth and mortality rates, increasing the life expectancy, requires discussions about the growth of the elderly population, which brings the need of a commitment to the necessities of this age group and to the creation of social and health policies able to embrace such necessities in a true effective way. [1, 2]
Since the problematic is set, it is interesting to introduce that the aim of this study is to describe what is the behavior of the deaths from external causes of the elderly population older than 60 years old in the different regions of Brazil
The polynomial analysis and Joinpoint are models applicable to long time series, usually higher than ten years. They are frequently adopted by studies about cancer and/or long follow-up diseases. [10, 26]. Considering their averages, we can see the condition of the deaths from external causes in the Brazilian elderly population getting an extremely complex linear drawing regardless of gender, race and social status (Figure 1)
Summary
A well-known fact for all mankind is that the population of the world is aging. Some impact phenomena such as the lower in the birth and mortality rates, increasing the life expectancy, requires discussions about the growth of the elderly population, which brings the need of a commitment to the necessities of this age group and to the creation of social and health policies able to embrace such necessities in a true effective way. [1, 2]Events like the speed as the world population is aging, the social transition process that the families have been through, the epidemiological transition and others deep changes incite us to believe thatKeywords Mortality Registers; External Causes. A well-known fact for all mankind is that the population of the world is aging Some impact phenomena such as the lower in the birth and mortality rates, increasing the life expectancy, requires discussions about the growth of the elderly population, which brings the need of a commitment to the necessities of this age group and to the creation of social and health policies able to embrace such necessities in a true effective way. The general life expectancy of the world increased and this is, and should be, considered as an advance The speed of this increase in Brazil has been twice faster than in the European Countries. The current elderly is “result” of a country that has aged quickly without of proper legislations capable of considering the manners of living and dying of this population and pointing answers to this process. The current elderly is “result” of a country that has aged quickly without of proper legislations capable of considering the manners of living and dying of this population and pointing answers to this process. [2, 3, 5]
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