This study is a first attempt to produce reliable estimates of mortality in Georgia and Armenia in the 1990s. Official statistics registered a decrease in mortality over the 1990s in spite of local wars, mass flows of refugees, and severe economic hardships faced by populations. According to...

The well-known Oeppen-Vaupel straight line of maximum female life expectancies showed that the highest life expectancy observed in a given year increased linearly from 1840 to 2000. Their analysis fueled major controversy, especially when used to extrapolate future improvements in life...

In the most advanced countries, child mortality and adult mortality under age 65 years have fallen so low that further improvement in life expectancy relies almost completely on the decline of mortality at older ages. This phenomenon is particularly pronounced among women, who are far ahead of...

Jusque dans les années 1970, une épidémie de grippe faisait directement de 10 000 à 20 000 morts, auxquelles il faut ajouter les décès dus aux complications de la maladie. La mise au point d'un vaccin efficace, constamment remanié en fonction des mutations du virus, a permis de diviser la...

Dans un article paru en 2002 dans la revue Science, James Oeppen et James Vaupel, observant que les records d'espérance de vie avaient progressé linéairement depuis 1841 au rythme constant de 3 mois par an, en concluaient qu'il y avait toute raison de croire que cela continuerait encore...

Up until the 1970s, flu epidemics commonly caused 10,000 to 20,000 direct deaths each year in France, not counting those who died from complications of the disease. The development of an effective vaccine, regularly reformulated in response to new viral mutations, has brought a ten-fold...

In an article published in Science in 2002, James Oeppen and James Vaupel, observing a constant linear progression (at arate of 3 months per year) in maximum life expectancies since 1841, concluded that the trend was set to continue for manyyears to come. A critical re-assessment of the data and...

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With the collapse of the Soviet Union, Caucasian countries experienced remarkable migration flows, political conflicts, and deterioration of civil registration systems. The reassessment of Armenian and Georgian population after censuses carried out in the early 2000s enables to re-estimate...