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DEMOGRAPHY OF SWEDEN.
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Percentage of death-rates in Sweden as’ compared with corresponding
death-rates in Western Europe as a whole, 1871/80.
heel" of the poorer and less populated countries. The well-populated
lands here easily win an advantage, by means of their greater
resources in the necessary medical aid.
The mortality in Sweden in every age-group between the years 15
and 75 is about 25 % lower than in Western Europe in general. The
regularity of the figures (see Table 23) is most striking.
The mortality, according to age, for Sweden, can be studied from
the year 1750. A summary of the results of such an examination is
given in Table 24 (next page).
The decline of mortality bears with it an increase in the length of
life. According to the Swedish tables of mortality, the Expectation
of life for a new-born child is, in this country:
Tears. Both sexes. Men. Women.
1755/1775 ..................... 35-20 years. 33 90 years. 36-60 years.
1816/1840 .................... 41-43 » 39-50 » 43 56 »
1861/1870 ..................... 44-58 > 42-80 > 46 37 »
1881/1890 ..................... 50 02 » 48-55 . 51-47 »
The average length of life has thus increased during the last
century and a half, from 35 to 50 years. This fact alone is sufficient to
show the complete revolution affected during the 19th century in
almost every condition of life. The mean lifetime is now in Sweden
50-02 years, in Norway 49-94, in Denmark 47-85, in England 45-43, in
Belgium 45-oe, in the Netherlands 43-7 5, in Finland 42-su years. In
France, the average length of life was 42-13 years for the period 1877/81;
and at the present time it is probably somewhat higher. The figure 50-02
for Sweden is the highest figure a whole nation has ever reached. —
In the country districts of Sweden, the average length of life reaches
51-58 years but in the towns only about 43-3 8. The average length of
life for the men is 48-5 5 years (in the country districts 50-5 5 and in the
towns only 40-05), for the women 51-4 7 years (in the country districts
52-62 and in the towns 46-41).
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