'Overall, the genetic structure of the [British] Isles is stubbornly Celtic, if by that we mean descent from people who were here before the
Romans and who spoke a Celtic language.'
—Bryan Sykes, Blood of the Isles (2006)
Female all-cause mortality at age 15-34 years in different parts of the
United Kingdom: 1880-2006 (restricted vertical axis)
Method: Mortality rates were downloaded from the Human Mortality Database (see www.mortality.org or
www.humanmortality.de)
on 4 December 2009. The mortality rates have been smoothed, as three-year moving averages
(see the Info page for details), to enable comparisons of several nations on one graph. The smoothing causes transient deviations from the
general trend to be understated, though the area under the curve remains the same.
Method: Mortality rates were downloaded from the Human Mortality Database (see www.mortality.org or www.humanmortality.de) on 4 December 2009. The mortality rates have been smoothed, as three-year moving averages (see the Info page for details), to enable comparisons of several nations on one graph. The smoothing causes transient deviations from the general trend to be understated, though the area under the curve remains the same.