MORTALITY TRENDS

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Graphs showing time trends in mortality rates

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This website shows time trends in mortality rates. The rates are for particular places, ages and causes of death — and you can choose which. To begin, click one of the graphs at right.

Places

Graphs are now available for 16 countries, including the UK, the US, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Germany, Norway, Poland and Mexico (listed in order of visitor traffic).

Source

Most rates were calculated using data published by the World Health Organization (WHO). WHO is not, however, responsible for any of this website's content.

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A repository of interesting graphs can be found at the www.graphbank.org.

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25 May 2010. In the UK and many other countries, the greatest public health achievement of the past few decades has been some spectacular reductions in mortality from diseases of blood vessels (ie, 'vascular diseases'), including heart disease and stroke. Here are graphs showing the reductions in middle-aged mortality among males and females in the UK. Graphs for other ages can be found near the top of the Special graph section.

1 May 2010. In England and Wales, a 60-year old man has a 1 in 6 chance — and a 60-year old woman has a 1 in 12 chance — of dying before age 70. A century earlier, the corresponding chances were two to three times greater for men and four times greater for women. For details, see this graph for males and this graph for females in the Special graph section.

10 January 2010. Australia, England, Canada, New Zealand, Scotland the US and Wales have many things in common, but not usually the risk of dying at any particular age: for example, see this graph of middle-age male mortality since the 1930s.

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