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The calculation of the rates is discussed in regard to age and sex, because populations and death rates can differ considerably in their the usual actuarial and medical statistical texts distributions by age and sex. Experience has and also in the official statistical publications of shown that, for most purposes, the age groups many countries and in the international pubare conveniently defined by ages in years at the lications of the United Nations and World last birthday as follows: 0, 1 to 4, 5 to 14, 15 to Health Organizations.

An early difficulty was the computation of Definitions of Death 25 specific death rates or even crude death rates, tion system so that age-specific death rates since no populations at risk were available in could be calculated, and during the nineteenth the absence of censuses, which could not be century such rates became available for all held because of popular prejudices against European states and many of the states in the them, sometimes expressed in riots, and be- rest of the world. L. Euler (1707-1783) obtained the stable life cause of the weakness of the central bureautable population simply by multiplying the cracies.

Continued. Country All Year ages 0 1-4 5-9 10-14 15-19 20-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 65-74 Females England and Wales 1948 1985 101 296 117 83 16 4 6 2 6 2 11 3 16 3 17 5 24 12 54 34 123 96 332 241 Scotland 1948 1985 113 372 124 88 19 4 9 2 9 2 20 3 26 3 30 6 33 14 65 40 150 120 300 Northern Ireland 1948 1985 107 381 99 86 25 4 7 3 8 2 16 3 18 4 23 6 38 12 75 38 151 103 431 278 Ireland (Eire) 1951 1983 137 387 86 89 24 5 7 2 7 1 13 3 21 4 25 5 40 12 75 38 180 106 482 276 Norway 1948 1984 5 1 8 3 12 3 14 4 23 10 43 26 95 67 275 178 1948 1985 14* 5 12t 4 7 1 Denmark 87 222* 93 83 83 262t 107 70 6 2 4 2 7 3 10 4 15 6 24 16 51 44 119 100 331 224 Sweden 1948 1985 97 194 104 119 12 3 5 1 4 2 7 3 11 3 13 6 23 10 50 26 121 66 352 174 Finland 1948 1985 100 465 92 58 34 2 10 2 10 1 22 3 29 3 32 5 37 11 60 26 145 70 423 219 France 1948 1985 115 466 94 73 29 4 8 2 6 2 11 17 5 22 6 30 13 56 28 122 61 316 158 Japan 1948 1985 112 632 56 51 107 4 23 2 16 1 36 2 66 64 5 67 10 96 24 182t 54 459 t 154 Australia 1948 1983 89 245 64 88 15 5 6 2 5 2 5 4 9 5 15 6 28 11 62 32 137 79 360 202 New Zealand 194811 1985 81 188 78 96 14 6 6 3 5 3 9 5 13 6 16 7 24 14 68 39 190 94 463 238 United States 1948 1984 85 79 296* 97 6 2 5 2 9 5 12 6 16 7 32 14 68 38 148 92 376 214 Canada 1950 1985 83 63 309§ 71 14* 5 14§ 4 7 2 6 2 8 4 10 4 13 5 27 11 56 31 131 75 346 238 4 3 406 Data modified from tables in UN-historical (1979) and UN Demographic Yearbook (1986), copyright (c) (1979) and (1986), respectively, United Nations.

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