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ACCORDING to statistics recently published in Germany, the average duration of human life in most countries was about fifteen years longer in 1921 than in 1871. In 1880 in Germany, 261 out of 10,000 inhabitants died as compared with 212 in 1900 and 111 in 1930. During the same periods there were 205, 182 and 114 deaths in England, and 198, 176 and 113 in the United States. In Hungary the decline of mortality was most pronounced, there being 386 deaths per 10,000 inhabitants in 1880 and only 155 in 1930. During the same period of half a century, the percentage fall of mortality in different countries was as follows: Germany, 54.8; England, 44.4; France, 22.6; Italy, 41.7; Switzerland, 51.8; Sweden, 39.7; United States, 40.4; and Australia, 46.9 (Bruxelles M6d., October 25).
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Demographic Statistics. Nature 138, 1007 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/1381007d0
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