Colours: The coloured curves represent French males (blue) and females (red); for comparison, the light grey curves represent males (upper grey curve) and females (lower) in England & Wales.
Comment: In France, the mortality rate at age 80-89 years was on average about 15% higher in each sex during 1940-45 than during 1935-39.
There was, however, no visible increase in mortality at this age during the 1914-18 war.
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 French males (blue) and females (red); for comparison, the light grey curves represent males (upper grey curve) and females (lower) in England & Wales.
Comment: In France, the mortality rate at age 80-89 years was on average about 15% higher in each sex during 1940-45 than during 1935-39. There was, however, no visible increase in mortality at this age during the 1914-18 war.
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.