Cohort mortality in Sweden (pdf)

Cohort mortality in SwedenProportion of survivors8. Proportion of survivorsThe reduced deathmortality rate, especially among young but evenof higher ages, has led to a sharp increase in the proportion ofsurvivors. The proportion of survivors at each age has increasedfrom cohort to cohort. As illustrated in figure 8.1, nearly 60 percentof the men born in 1861 were still living at the age of 40. Amongwomen born the same year, the proportion of survivors was 62percent. For the cohort of 1960, the proportion of survivors at age 40was considerably higher, 95 percent for men and 97 percent arewomen. At the age of 80, 17 percent of the men born in 1861 werestill alive and 20 percent of the women. The corresponding figuresfor 1920 cohort were 37 and 56 percent respectively. The mortalityrate have dropped sharply from the cohort born in 1861 to the 1920cohort, and the most quickly for women.By probable life expectancy, or the median, we refer to the agewhere exactly half of the cohort is still alive. Of those born in 1861,half of the men were still alive at age 56, while half of the womenwere still alive at age 62 ( figure 8 .2). The probable life expectancyfor the younger cohorts has increased sharply especially so forfemales. Even after the age of 80, half of the women born during the1920s are still alive. For the cohort born in 1924, half were still aliveat age 83 among women while the corresponding age for menwhenthere was age 76.Statistics Sweden 43