Death rates
Relevant to my last post: latest death rates from the ONS, graphed for our viewing pleasure.
It's important to emphasise that these are crude death rates and very much not the same as life expectancy. In particular, you would expect an older population to have a higher death rate. This is why China's death rate is so much lower than the UK's, and perhaps part of why it's rising: their population is much younger on average than ours, but (I think) ageing more rapidly.
But either the UK population is getting older or our mortality got worse last year. Or both.
For balance, the UK infant mortality rate did not rise but stayed level in 2015 at the all-time record low set in 2014.
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It's important to emphasise that these are crude death rates and very much not the same as life expectancy. In particular, you would expect an older population to have a higher death rate. This is why China's death rate is so much lower than the UK's, and perhaps part of why it's rising: their population is much younger on average than ours, but (I think) ageing more rapidly.
But either the UK population is getting older or our mortality got worse last year. Or both.
For balance, the UK infant mortality rate did not rise but stayed level in 2015 at the all-time record low set in 2014.
This entry crossposted to http://doug.dreamwidth.org/326194.html, where there are