TABLE 9.	DECLINE OF MORTALITY AT AGES 80-99 FROM 1955-59 TO 1985-89.

Country	Percent			Per 1000 population
	Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female
Australia	23.6	19.2	25.8	34.3	34.1	34.4
Austria	23.1	19.6	25.2	42.0	39.6	43.2
Belgium	24.9	15.9	30.2	43.6	30.8	50.0
Czechoslovakia	10.4	4.7	13.6	19.7	9.7	24.8
Denmark	25.9	13.6	32.7	42.1	23.4	51.4
England & Wales	25.4	20.5	28.7	42.6	41.0	43.5
Estonia	9.2	5.1	11.2	15.0	9.6	17.7
Finland	30.6	22.5	35.1	59.3	47.1	65.4
France	31.3	25.9	34.7	52.8	51.1	53.7
Germany East	7.1	-0.4	11.3	13.2	-0.7	20.1
Germany West	26.2	16.9	31.5	47.0	32.9	54.0
Hungary	11.1	2.31	5.9	21.1	4.7	29.3
Iceland	25.5	19.0	29.1	35.8	29.4	39.0
Ireland	16.9	8.5	21.4	29.0	16.3	34.7
Italy	21.9	13.9	26.5	35.3	24.5	40.7
Japan	39.4	34.4	42.5	72.2	72.0	72.3
Latvia	-0.1	- 1.4	0.6	-0.3	-2.4	0.8
Luxemburg	25.2	16.0	30.8	47.0	33.4	53.8
Netherlands	22.2	8.0	30.2	33.7	13.1	44.0
New Zealand	15.1	7.5	18.9	21.5	12.6	26.0
Norway	17.6	3.7	25.2	25.6	5.6	35.7
Poland	- 2.5	-4.1	- 1.7	-4.1	-7.3	- 2.5
Portugal	19.0	17.8	19.8	34.0	37.0	32.5
Scotland	25.1	16.9	30.2	46.2	35.5	51.6
Singapore	…	…	…	…	…	…
Spain	25.5	25.1	25.7	41.8	46.7	39.4
Sweden	26.9	14.5	33.8	43.9	25.4	53.2
Switzerland	34.0	25.3	39.0	58.6	48.3	63.8
Aggregates:
- High mortality 3 countries	9.1	1.6	12.9	16.6	3.3	23.3
- Medium mortal. 5 countries	25.7	18.2	29.5	43.8	35.7	47.9
- Low mortality 4 countries	25.1	11.2	32.1	39.2	18.9	49.3
- Rapid decline 2 countries	34.6	25.9	39.0	57.4	50.9	60.6
- Western Europe 11 countries	27.4	19.5	31.4	45.8	37.5	49.9

Certain time periods have been substituted in some countries as in Table 6.