Colours: The coloured diamonds represent Swedish males (blue) and females (red); for comparison,
the light grey curves represent males (generally the upper grey curve) and females (generally the lower) in England & Wales.
Comment: The general increase in mortality between 1750 and 1850 is likely not to have been real, but rather, an artefact caused by steadily improving enumeration of deaths during that period,
especially for deaths among people who were nearing old age (eg, at age 60-69 years).
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 diamonds represent Swedish males (blue) and females (red); for comparison, the light grey curves represent males (generally the upper grey curve) and females (generally the lower) in England & Wales.
Comment: The general increase in mortality between 1750 and 1850 is likely not to have been real, but rather, an artefact caused by steadily improving enumeration of deaths during that period, especially for deaths among people who were nearing old age (eg, at age 60-69 years).
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.