carried out in the early 2000s enables to re-estimate recent mortality levels in both countries. Vital statistics since the … 1980s are presented and discussed. Infant mortality is corrected according to sample surveys, and mortality above age 60 …

Okinawa, in order to explain the presence of large numbers of centenarians. The mortality crossover obtained by comparing … mortality rates in Okinawa and Japan could be attributed either to different behavior of the generations born before and after …

Humans, and many other species, suffer senescence: mortality increases and fertility declines with adult age. Some … species, however, enjoy sustenance: mortality and fertility remain constant. Here we develop simple but general evolutionary …

In a heterogeneous cohort, the change with age in the force of mortality or some other kind of hazard or intensity of …

In this paper, we use the multiple cause-of-death approach to compare the mortality profiles of France and Italy in …