Comment: Mortality at age 50-59 years did not start to decline consistently until 1901 (1891 was a particularly grim year). In both sexes, a really rapid decline
began quite suddenly in 1980.
Method: Mortality rates were downloaded from the Human Mortality Database (see www.mortality.org or
www.humanmortality.de)
on 4 December 2009. The plotted lines connect unsmoothed values.
Comment: Mortality at age 50-59 years did not start to decline consistently until 1901 (1891 was a particularly grim year). In both sexes, a really rapid decline began quite suddenly in 1980.
Method: Mortality rates were downloaded from the Human Mortality Database (see www.mortality.org or www.humanmortality.de) on 4 December 2009. The plotted lines connect unsmoothed values.