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Mortality, Breslaw 1691

Mortality, Breslaw 1691

Data from Edmond Halley's An Estimate of the Degrees of Mortality of Mankind (1693), table p.600.* The graph shows the probability of dying at a certain age. For instance: 2 of a hundred persons die between their 40th and 41st birthday.

 


© Matthias Böhne, 16 January 2002