France 2004: Life expectancy tops 80 years
Gilles Pison
Population and societies
N°410, mars 2005, n° ISSN 0184 77 83
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Abstract (click on +)
Length of life is continuing to increase in France. It made a leap forward in 2004 compared with 2003, the year of the heatwave, but also compared with 2002, a normal year. By setting the advances of the past few years against a long-term trend starting in the mid-eighteenth century, Gilles Pison explains the reasons for the impressive extension of life expectancy in two centuries and the specific increase in 2004.
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France 2004: Life expectancy tops 80 years
- As many births in 2004 as in 2003
- Significant drop in mortality in 2004
- Two-and-a-half centuries of life expectancy gains
- From the survival of children to the survival of adults
- Deaths from the heatwave were more than offset in 2004
