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: In both sexes, the four highest infant mortality rates on record in France were, in descending order, those of 1871, 1859, 1834 and 1870. (Note: the Franco-Prussian War was
fought from July 1870 to May 1871.)
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: In both sexes, the four highest infant mortality rates on record in France were, in descending order, those of 1871, 1859, 1834 and 1870. (Note: the Franco-Prussian War was fought from July 1870 to May 1871.)
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.