French mortality data — fr.mort • demography

Age-specific mortality rates and population for France.

Details

fr.mort contains French mortality rates and populations (1899-2005) for ages 0-110. Data taken from the Human Mortality Database on 20 February 2008. fr.sm contains a smoothed version of fr.mort obtained using the smooth.demogdata function.

Format

Object of class demogdata containing the following components:

year: Vector of years
age: Vector of ages
rate: List of matrices containing rates with with one age group per row and one column per year. Matrices: total, female, male.
pop: Population data in same form as rate.
type: Type of object. In this case, “mortality”.
label: Character string giving area from which data are taken. In this case, “France”.

Source

The Human Mortality Database (http://www.mortality.org).

Author

Rob J Hyndman

Examples

plot(fr.mort,years=1950:1997)


plot(fr.mort,years=1990,type='p',pch=1)
lines(fr.sm,years=1990)