Cohort mortality in Sweden (pdf)

Cohort mortality in SwedenCohort mortality6. Cohort mortalityChapters 3 to 5 presented the mortality trends for different calendaryear s broken down by age. This is the traditional way to describemortality trends. This chapter and Chapter the following chapterspresent mortality per cohort. To be able to follow a cohort from birthand up until the last person dies, statistics must be compiled for aperiod of slightly more than 100 years.Figure 6.1Mortality rate by year of birth and age. Available dataAge1861Born 1800 Born 190010080604020Born199001740 1780 1820 1860 1900 1940 1980 2020YearTheoretically it is possible in Sweden to study mortality startingwith the cohort born in 1749. In practice however, the availability ofdetailed statistics is problematic. Populations are only available forevery tenth year, and data is presented in five-year age categories.age groups. Moreover, there is a lack of statistics, especiallyconcerning age information for older persons. It was not until 1860Statistics Sweden 33