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, unsmoothed) death rate for age x in
calendar year t. More speciflcally,
m(t;x) = #deaths during calendar year t aged x last … INTRODUCTION 3
A third measure is the force of mortality, „(t;x). This is interpreted as the in-
stantaneous death rate at exact … time t for individuals aged exactly x at time t.
For these individuals, for small dt; the probability of death between t …