We propose a Bayesian hierarchical model for producing probabilistic forecasts of male period life expectancy at birth for all the countries of the world to 2100. Such forecasts would be an input to the production of probabilistic population projections for all countries, which is currently...

There have been marked disparities in mortality between metropolitan French départements for the past thirty years. They have lessened for women but remain high for men. As in the 1960s, the worst placed regions are the North, Alsace and Brittany. Mortality is lower in Paris, the south-western...

Using data for England and Wales during the years 1840–2000, a negative relation is found between economic growth – measured by the rate of growth of gross domestic product (GDP) – and health progress – as indexed by the annual increase in life expectancy at birth (LEB). That is, the...