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: The century-long decline in mortality among middle-aged Swedish males stalled between 1960 and 1976, chiefly because of a big
increase in coronary heart disease mortality (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: The century-long decline in mortality among middle-aged Swedish males stalled between 1960 and 1976, chiefly because of a big increase in coronary heart disease mortality (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.