Infant Mortality Rates, 1963 to 2021, England & Wales

Written by Joel Smalley on October 19, 2023. Posted in Current News

The infant mortality rate in England & Wales has been falling for over a century as you would expect (or certainly hope), given the obvious improvements in sanitation, healthcare, etc

However, it has not been “plain sailing”. In fact, there are some very obvious upward inflection points (exogenous events causing mortality), most notably in 1968, 1985 and since the early 1990s.

Here are the infant mortality rate (up to 1 year old) charts for boys and girls since 1963, overlaid with the years of the relevant infant vaccination schedules which are supposed to have contributed to the decline in mortality rates.

If these interventions were necessary, safe and effective, we should observe fairly obvious downward deviations from the trend line.

The black dotted line is the actual mortality rate. The solid black line is the data points used to fit a simply, 2-order polynomial, in order to vaguely estimate the mortality trend.

And here is the current schedule:

I haven’t been able to find any investigations into the upward spikes in mortality so I have made a note to study this in more detail once I get the full dataset from the ONS, going back to 1900.

Well, someone has to, don’t they?

See more here substack.com

Header image: BBC

Please Donate Below To Support Our Ongoing Work To Defend The Scientific Method

PRINCIPIA SCIENTIFIC INTERNATIONAL, legally registered in the UK as a company incorporated for charitable purposes. Head Office: 27 Old Gloucester Street, London WC1N 3AX. 

Trackback from your site.