This paper provides an overview of past and expected future trends in life expectancy in populations of today's low mortality countries. Because these populations previously experienced strong decreases in infant mortality, the future mortality trends will be driven mainly by mortality among the...

Meslé France. - Mortality in East European Countries. In most East European countries, life expectancy at birth has barely increased after the end of the 1960s, and in Poland and Bulgaria there has even been a decline in men's life expectancy. This increase in mortality was primarily caused by...