Historical dynamics of natural death rate of the population and variations of atmospheric radiocarbon
A.A. Germanskaia
Корнеева, д.2, sq. 73, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 198097
The retrospective research of death rate of the population of some
Western Europe countries -Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Germany - FRG,
France, Switzerland, Great Britain, Belgium-, as well as of the USA and
Australia, considering the periods of 19-th and 20-th centuries was
carried out. The choice of the countries and historical depth of
research of the population death rate were generally conditioned by the
presence of national demographic statistical databases of necessary
volume and quality. The analysis of age dependence of death rate of
people carried out according to the original methodic, has allowed to
isolate a natural component of death rate and to calculate its
parameters (Gompertz ratios).
In the result, the fact of the
existence of the synchronous fluctuations of natural death rate of the
population, coordinated with the variations of carbon - 14С
concentration in the atmosphere was established for all the studied
countries. The statistically established reliable correlation
(р < 0,05) characterizing the period of smooth decrease of
radiocarbon concentration (from 1800 up to1950 year) shows an
opportunity of the existence of functional dependence between the
parameters of these phenomena.
Key words:
The radioactive carbon, natural death rate
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