Death rates and modern life expectancy

Fertility, mortality, and life expectancy in pre-modern Japan.

Life expectancy, average age of death, and tempo-adjustment

The recent proposal by Bongaarts and Feeney for a tempo-adjustment to life expectancy is assessed using numerical techniques. I find that for a wide variety of situations no such adjustment is necessary provided mortality is observed in a given period. Bongaarts and Feeney assume the force of mortality affecting the mean age of death is not always observed. The present work brings into sharper ...

Methods for life expectancy and healthy life expectancy uncertainty analysis

Longevity and life expectancy.

"In this article the evolution of life expectancy is examined historically for various European nations at various ages, and according to sex. Appropriate logistic equations describe the facts and extrapolate into the future giving the doctor an indication of what is still to be accomplished and the demographer the tools with which to evaluate the aging of European population in the next 20 yea...

Sex and life expectancy.

BACKGROUND A sexual dimorphism in human life expectancy has existed in almost every country for as long as records have been kept. Although human life expectancy has increased each year, females still live longer, on average, than males. Undoubtedly, the reasons for the sex gap in life expectancy are multifaceted, and it has been discussed from both sociological and biological perspectives. How...