Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
DDC:
304.6
Abstract:
Abstract: Life expectancy at birth or middle age was tightly connected to mortality structure. Major mortality crises in certain years greatly reduced life expectancy in the area. High mortality rate influencing all age groups led to a considerable decrease of average age. From the point of view of life expectancy in the whole region, there was a genuine positive revolution. Mortality rate in the region as well as in Transylvania and Hungary greatly decreased, thus leading to the demographic pattern specific in Central and Western Europe at the time. The number of children dying before reaching the age of 1 and infantile mortality together with the high mortality rate at children aged 1 to 5 show that “young age group was dominant” in mortality analysis. Children were the most exposed to pressure of internal and external factors leading to death. Children were the most vulnerable in front of “death claws” in all seasons and all communities. It was a reality in all Transylvania. In spite of o
Note:
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In: Romanian journal of population studies (2011) ; 103-122
URN:
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-330019
URL:
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-330019