Mean age shift in age groups from 1960-70 to 1980-90

TABLE 12.	MEAN AGE SHIFT IN AGE GROUPS FROM 1960 - 70 TO 1980-90

Country	Male				Female					F-M¹⁾
Country	80-84	85-89	90-94	Mean 80-84	Country	80-84	85-89	90-94	Mean 80-84	F-M¹⁾
Japan	4.32	4.11	4.07	4.17	Finland	4.42	4.36	4.50	4.43	1.36
Finland	3.16	3.27	2.77	3.07	Japan	4.54	4.04	3.73	4.10	-0.07
Switzerland	2.38	2.15	2.38	2.30	Iceland	3.00	3.94	4.28	3.74	2.07
France	2.24	2.14	1.93	2.10	Switzerland	3.61	3.17	2.89	3.22	1.02
Austria	1.81	1.98	1.93	1.91	Luxembourg	3.08	2.45	3.09	2.87	1.88

Italy	1.40	1.87	2.42	1.90	Denmark	3.20	2.86	2.48	2.85	1.20
Germany, West	1.60	1.80	2.22	1.87	Germany, West	2.84	2.70	2.92	2.82	0.95
England & Wales	1.58	1.82	2.00	1.80	Belgium	2.76	2.74	2.85	2.78	1.00
Belgium	1.28	1.91	2.14	1.78	Sweden	3.03	2.76	2.24	2.68	1.29
Portugal	1.69	1.78	1.63	1.70	Netherlands	2.86	2.69	2.41	2.65	1.52

Iceland	2.15	1.75	1.11	1.67	Italy	2.53	2.45	2.50	2.49	0.59
Denmark	1.24	1.82	1.97	1.65	France	2.78	2.44	2.09	2.44	0.34
Scotland	1.28	1.71	1.97	1.65	Scotland	2.48	2.31	2.51	2.43	0.72
Sweden	1.19	1.28	1.69	1.39	Norway	2.59	2.28	2.08	2.32	1.19
New Zealand	1.29	1.62	1.13	1.35	England & Wales	2.41	2.28	2.05	2.25	0.45

Netherlands	0.42	1.14	1.83	1.13	New Zealand	1.96	2.18	1.96	2.03	0.68
Norway	0.77	1.09	1.54	1.13	Austria	2.16	1.82	1.60	1.86	0.05
Luxembourg	1.62	1.37	-0.01	0.99	Ireland	2.30	2.03	0.90	1.74	1.21
Estonia	0.12	0.49	2.15	0.92	Portugal	1.62	1.75	1.39	1.59	-0.11
Ireland	0.89	0.71	-0.08	0.53	Germany, East	1.28	1.17	1.13	1.19	0.83

Hungary	-0.07	0.55	1.05	0.51	Hungary	1.14	1.24	1.03	1.14	0.63
Germany, East	0.10	0.33	0.06	0.34	Estonia	0.58	1.02	0.81	0.80	-0.12
Czechoslovakia	-0.22	0.48	0.36	0.24	Czechoslovakia	0.82	0.85	0.49	0.72	0.48

Unweighted mean	1.40	1.62	1.69	1.57	Unweighted mean	2.49	2.41	2.26	2.40	0.83

^{¹⁾Difference between female and
male means.}