Colours: The coloured diamonds 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: The five highest blue diamonds (boys) on this graph are for, in descending order, 1915, 1918, 1914, 1916 and 1871: all years in which France was at war
against a German state. The relatively high rate for girls in 1871 suggests that the excess mortality for both sexes in that year might have had a largely infectious basis.
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 French males (blue) and females (red); for comparison, the light grey curves represent males (upper grey curve) and females (lower) in England & Wales.
Comment: The five highest blue diamonds (boys) on this graph are for, in descending order, 1915, 1918, 1914, 1916 and 1871: all years in which France was at war against a German state. The relatively high rate for girls in 1871 suggests that the excess mortality for both sexes in that year might have had a largely infectious basis.
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.