Recent gains in life expectancy among the elderly have noticeably contributed to increasing average life expectancy in developed countries. The old and oldest old are reaching thresholds that were unthinkable 30 or 40 years ago. Are recent gains due to increased longevity among a growing...

Wilmoth John, Vallin Jacques and Caselli Graziella. ? Differences between observed and expected generation mortality. This analysis of the matrix of mortality rates in France by age and calendar year between 1899 and 1981 is based on a simple descriptive model that makes it possible to isolate...

Caselli Graziella. ? Causes of Mortality in France. III. An Interpretation of Geographical Differences for the Period 1974-76. In this paper, variations in cause and geographical distribution of mortality are confronted with a group of economical, social, environmental and cultural variables....

A study of centenarians in Sardinia detected the existence of an area where the number of centenarians is higher than elsewhere, in particularly for men. There is a widespread opinion that the existence of a greater or a lesser number of centenarians largely depends on mortality features between...

CALOT Gérard and CASELLI Graziella. - Mortality in China according to the census of 1982. An analysis by sex and age at national and provincial levels. The Chinese Census taken on July 1st, 1982, which included a question on the number of deaths in 1981, makes it possible to establish life...

For countries that experience substantial war losses in a given time period, the exclusion of military deaths can have an important impact on estimates of mortality and life expectancy. In this paper, we start by reviewing Vallin’s work in accounting for French war losses. We then attempt...

CASELLI Graziella, ENZO Lombarde - Graphs and analysis of demographic Phenomena. Graphic methods in demography date back tb 1669. When Christian Huygens plotted the survival function of the life table in order to calculate mean and median expectations of life at different ages. In this paper,...