Colours: The coloured curves represent Swedish males (blue) and females (red); for comparison,
the light grey curves represent males (upper grey curve) and females (lower) in England & Wales.
Comment: Swedish male all-cause mortality at age 70-79 years began suddenly to decline in 1980, around the time that coronary heart disease mortality
at this age began to plunge (see the Sweden graphs in the Choose section).
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.
Colours: The coloured curves represent Swedish males (blue) and females (red); for comparison, the light grey curves represent males (upper grey curve) and females (lower) in England & Wales.
Comment: Swedish male all-cause mortality at age 70-79 years began suddenly to decline in 1980, around the time that coronary heart disease mortality at this age began to plunge (see the Sweden graphs in the Choose section).
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.