Colours: The coloured curves represent Scottish males (blue) and females (red); for comparison,
the light grey curves represent males (upper grey curve) and females (lower) in England & Wales.
Comment: For both sexes, Scotland's middle-age mortality rates in 2006 were similar to what the corresponding rates had been in England & Wales in 1996 —
ie, a decade earlier.
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 Scottish males (blue) and females (red); for comparison, the light grey curves represent males (upper grey curve) and females (lower) in England & Wales.
Comment: For both sexes, Scotland's middle-age mortality rates in 2006 were similar to what the corresponding rates had been in England & Wales in 1996 — ie, a decade earlier.
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.