Longevity insurance benefits are deferred annuities that start payment at an advanced age at which a substantial proportion of the birth cohort has died. In high-income countries, that would mean that these annuities would start for people in their early 80s, but when social security programs...

Total deaths in the two elderly age groups in Ontario Canada were analyzed using two approaches to compare pre-Covid deaths with Covid 2020 deaths. The linear trendline of 2014-2019 pre-Covid deaths was used to de-trend the data relative to 2014, including for 2020.1. Annual averages and...