The contemporary world continues to register substantial progress in economic growth, abundance in production of food grains, and profound breakthroughs in medical technology and knowledge on diseases and healthcare. These are no mean achievements and there are reasons to further them, as they...

This paper considers the issue of actuarial fairness of the new Italian public pension system in view of the recent trends in old-age mortality and the survival differences by gender, birth cohort and region of residence. After reviewing the secular trends in elderly mortality in Italy, and the...

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,...

Calot Gérard, Caselli Graziella. - Life Table Construction. Conversion of Rates into Probabilities of Dying The object of this paper is to determine the equations needed to calculate the probability of dying between birthday i and birthday i + 1, when one of the rates Tp or Tc in the Lexis...

In both developed and developing countries, the elderly have enjoyed significant declines in mortality and increased survival. At the same time, these trends have also given rise to many uncertainties and demands on resources which are often not given their due attention. Future mortality...