[V] Annual Report, Department of Health, City of New York, 1912, pp. 176–177.

[W] Supplement to the Seventy-Fifth Annual Report of the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages in England and Wales. Part I—Life Tables, pp. 56–85.

DEATH RATE PER 1000 IN PRUSSIA BY AGE GROUPS
1875–80 TO 1901–1910
Ages1875–1880.[X]1881–1890.[X]1891–1900.[X]1901–1910.[Y]
MalesFemalesMalesFemalesMalesFemalesMalesFemales
1–271.869.170.268.058.055.545.343.1
2–337.136.136.334.624.723.816.516.0
3–522.221.720.820.714.213.98.98.8
5–109.39.28.89.05.96.14.24.4
10–153.94.33.84.32.93.32.42.7
15–205.14.64.84.54.33.84.03.6
20–257.76.37.05.86.05.15.24.6
25–308.68.27.67.56.16.15.35.5
30–4010.910.310.69.78.37.97.06.7
40–5016.712.316.311.714.310.012.58.6
50–6027.620.726.919.824.217.523.516.0
60–7053.046.351.444.848.742.045.537.4
70–80113.3106.2110.2113.9102.597.1100.6102.0
80 & over236.4227.2238.2229.0233.1223.3214.4202.6

Note that in both sexes there was a steady and substantial decline in the death rate at all age periods of life after 1875.

[X] Königlich Statistisches Bureau in Berlin Preussische Statistik. Hft. 184, p. iv. ff., Berlin.

[Y] Zeitschrift des Königlich Preussichen Statistichen Landesamts, Berlin, 1912, p. xvii.

DEATH RATE PER 1000 IN DENMARK BY AGE GROUPS 1880–1889—1890–1900
Ages1880–18891890–1900
MalesFemalesMalesFemales
0–553.146.048.540.8
5–107.27.75.66.0
10–154.45.63.64.6
15–204.95.84.54.7
20–257.06.16.04.9
25–306.57.45.55.6
30–356.87.96.16.5
35–407.88.47.77.5
40–459.89.39.38.2
45–5012.610.211.69.1
50–5516.812.215.711.8
55–6022.617.022.016.4
60–6533.326.130.724.2
65–7046.939.244.736.7
70–7570.058.374.565.0
75–80104.992.9115.098.9
80–85178.7157.4169.4151.6
85–90246.7210.9250.1226.5
90-over392.3350.1425.6373.2

Note the improvement in mortality at nearly every age period of life, in both sexes.

Befolkningsforholdene i. Denmark i. 19. Arrhundrede, p. 125. Denmark Statistiske Tabelvaerk, Ser. 5, Litra A. no. 5.

Ages0–55–1010–1515–2525–3535–4545–5555–6565 over
Years
1801–1079.012.17.28.511.014.922.740.8111.4
1811–2076.09.75.67.29.914.321.037.6102.9
1821–3063.17.64.56.19.413.620.135.496.9
1831–4060.37.54.76.09.814.320.835.6102.1
1841–5056.87.84.45.58.012.218.131.897.1
1851–6060.510.95.56.18.411.917.932.191.6
1861–7057.39.14.45.47.210.115.128.787.2
1871–8052.38.54.25.37.49.313.123.679.4
1881–9043.67.74.05.26.68.211.521.171.4
1891–0036.96.03.65.46.57.810.919.771.3

Note the pronounced fall in the death rate at every age period during the past century.