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: French infant mortality increased during the Second World War, peaking first in 1940, and then, at an even higher level, in 1945. The infant mortality rates in
1945 were two-thirds higher than the rates in 1939, and similar to those in 1910.
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: French infant mortality increased during the Second World War, peaking first in 1940, and then, at an even higher level, in 1945. The infant mortality rates in 1945 were two-thirds higher than the rates in 1939, and similar to those in 1910.
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.