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  2. Demographics of the Victorian era - Wikipedia

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    The Victorian era was a time of unprecedented population growth in Britain. The population rose from 13.9 million in 1831 to 32.5 million in 1901. Two major contributory factors were fertility rates and mortality rates. Britain was the first country to undergo the demographic transition and the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions.

  3. Death rates in the 20th century - Wikipedia

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    Fertility rates and consequently live birth rates declined over the century, while age-adjusted death rates fell more dramatically. Children in 1999 were 10 times less likely to die than children in 1900. For adults 24–65, death rates have been halved. The death rate for Americans aged 65 to 74 fell from nearly 7% per year to fewer than 2% ...

  4. Child mortality - Wikipedia

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    Share of children born alive that die before the age of 5 (2017) [1] Breakdown of child mortality by cause, OWID. Child mortality is the death of children under the age of five. [2] The child mortality rate (also under-five mortality rate) refers to the probability of dying between birth and exactly five years of age expressed per 1,000 live ...

  5. Mortality in the early modern period - Wikipedia

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    Children born to mothers 35 years or older had a higher risk of mortality than children born to younger mothers. linking a mother's health and a child's survival. [2] Female infants and children often had a higher mortality rate, especially in times of food insecurity, compared to male infants and children.

  6. List of countries by infant and under-five mortality rates

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    The infant mortality rate is the number of deaths of infants under one year old per 1,000 live births. This rate is often used as an indicator of the level of health in a country. The infant mortality rate of the world in 2019 was 28 according to the United Nations [4] and the projected estimate for 2020 was 30.8 according to the CIA World ...

  7. List of countries by past life expectancy - Wikipedia

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    Life expectancy by world region, from 1770 to 2018. This is a list of countries showing past life expectancy, ranging from 1950 to 2015 in five-year periods, as estimated by the 2017 revision of the World Population Prospects database by the United Nations Population Division.

  8. Child deaths at lowest level since records began - AOL

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    There were 2,226 deaths of babies and 789 deaths of children aged one to 15 in 2020, the Office for National Statistics said.

  9. Life expectancy - Wikipedia

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    In the past, mortality rates for females in child-bearing age groups were higher than for males at the same age. A paper from 2015 found that female foetuses have a higher mortality rate than male foetuses. [83] This finding contradicts papers dating from 2002 and earlier that attribute the male sex to higher in-utero mortality rates.