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The end of the regional convergence in mortality in the European Union? Evidence from France and Germany

Florian Bonnet, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED)
Pavel Grigoriev, Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB), Germany
France Meslé, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED)
Michael Muehlichen, Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB), Germany

In this paper, we study the evolution of spatial inequalities in mortality in France and Germany over the last three decades. For this we calculate mortality rates in French departments (95 geographical units) and German RORs (96 units). This new dataset on regional mortality enables us: to rethink the study of the trend of spatial inequalities in mortality insofar as these tend to decrease when mortality at the national level decreases. In this context, the stagnation of inequalities observed in recent years should be all the more alarming since mortality continues to decline at the national level in France and Germany.

Keywords: Mortality, Spatial statistics, Inequality

See paper.

Presented in Session 150. Spatial Population Dynamics