MORTALITY TRENDS

• Trends in national mortality rates •  

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All-cause mortality at age 80-89 years in

England and Wales: 1841-2006

Graph showing all-cause mortality at age 80-89 years in England and Wales since 1841

Comment: In both sexes, mortality rates at age 80-89 years halved between 1936 and 2006.

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.

WHO mortality rates for particular countries, ages and causes of death