Nobody on the face of the globe lived longer

Why the extraordinary decline in mortality? Our interest was provoked by the work of demographers who graphed the superbly linear rise over time in maximum average life expectancy, especially since the fine print in the demographers' graphs included this fact: from the 1870s to about 1940 non-M...

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Published in:The Lancet (British edition) 2016-03, Vol.387 (10023), p.1049-1050
Main Authors: Woodward, Alistair, Blakely, Tony
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Demographics
Emigration and Immigration - history
Health care
History, 18th Century
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Humans
Immigration
Internal Medicine
Life expectancy
Life Expectancy - ethnology
Life Expectancy - history
Life Expectancy - trends
Longevity - physiology
Mortality
New Zealand - ethnology
Population
Public health
Trends
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Summary:Why the extraordinary decline in mortality? Our interest was provoked by the work of demographers who graphed the superbly linear rise over time in maximum average life expectancy, especially since the fine print in the demographers' graphs included this fact: from the 1870s to about 1940 non-Maori New Zealanders lived longer than any other population worldwide.
ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00667-X