Colours: The coloured diamonds represent Swedish males (blue) and females (red); for comparison,
the light grey curves represent males (upper grey curve) and females (lower) in England & Wales.
Comment: The year with especially high infant mortality rates was 1773, which a publicly authored web encyclopedia says was a time of famine in Sweden.
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 Swedish males (blue) and females (red); for comparison, the light grey curves represent males (upper grey curve) and females (lower) in England & Wales.
Comment: The year with especially high infant mortality rates was 1773, which a publicly authored web encyclopedia says was a time of famine in Sweden.
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.