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 six years with the highest recorded mortality rates for young Swedish males are, in descending order, 1773 (famine), 1789 (war against Russia), 1809 (another war against Russia), 1772 (famine) and 1918 (influenza).
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 six years with the highest recorded mortality rates for young Swedish males are, in descending order, 1773 (famine), 1789 (war against Russia), 1809 (another war against Russia), 1772 (famine) and 1918 (influenza).
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.