Mortalidad infantil - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 15:15:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Mortalidad infantil - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Infant mortality in Spain (per thousand children born). 18th century in mainland Spain https://historylab.es/infant-mortality-in-spain-per-thousand-children-born-18th-century-in-mainland-spain/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=infant-mortality-in-spain-per-thousand-children-born-18th-century-in-mainland-spain Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:28:52 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/mortalidad-infantil-en-espana-por-mil-ninos-nacidos-siglo-xviii-en-espana-continental/ Infant mortality in the different Spanish provinces during the 18th century

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]]> Life expectancy is an indicator of the average lifespan of a generation. During the seventeenth century, this was around 28 years, although different authors suggested the possibility of 27 or 25 years. Infectious diseases were responsible for the short lifespan, as they were a scourge for Spanish villages, towns and cities. In addition to this, 1796 saw a fundamental event in the fight against infectious diseases: Jenner’s discovery of antivariol vaccination, which was quickly and favourably known. Infant mortality rates are between 200 and 230 per thousand, with intermediate mortality in regions such as the Balearic Islands, Navarre and Aragon and life expectancy below the Spanish average. The analysis of mortality from the end of the 16th century until the beginning of the demographic transition reveals the existence of trends that favoured the periphery over the interior of the peninsula, becoming more noticeable in the 1860s.

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]]> Infant mortality in Spain (per thousand children born), 18th century https://historylab.es/infant-mortality-in-spain-per-thousand-children-born-18th-century/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=infant-mortality-in-spain-per-thousand-children-born-18th-century Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:28:33 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/mortalidad-infantil-en-espana-por-mil-ninos-nacidos-siglo-xviii/ Regional differences in Spanish infant mortality in the 18th century

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]]> In general terms, infant mortality in Ancien Régime Spain obeyed high-pressure demographic dynamics. However, there was a regional variability that can be traced well into the contemporary period. These trends favoured the Spanish periphery to the detriment of the interior: Catalonia, Valencia, Aragon, Galicia, Cantabria, the Balearic Islands, the Basque Country and Navarre were found to have between 209 and 251 deceased children per 1,000 born in the first half of the 18th century, a range of 42, while by the second half of the century this range had decreased to 17. Inland Spain, on the other hand, infant mortality went from 303 to 320, an increase of 17 between the first and second half of the century. The data on the evolution of the Spanish territories also show a contrast between them; while the average for peripheral Spain is 203, the average for inland Spain is 320. What were the possible causes of regional variability? In addition to family trends and socio-economic structure, there were health (epidemics), climatic (bad harvests) and environmental aspects.

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