Fifty Years of Canadian Jewish Mortality

The author presents abridged life tables for Jews of the City of Montreal at approximately ten‐year intervals over the period 1920 to 1971. For much of the half century, about one‐third of the Canadian Jewish population lived in the City of Montreal. For the first thirty years of the period, the "Jewish pattern of mortality" - very low mortality up to early middle age, with relatively high mortality rates thereafter - was evident. But by the end of the 1960s, the author found that the traditional mortality pattern had disappeared. At that time, he found that female Montreal Jews had an expectation of life at birth similar to that for Canadian women of all religions, but the comparable expectation for male Montreal Jews was higher than that for the males of any country in the world.

Biodemography and Social Biology

Vol. 35

no. 1-2

110-122

1988

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