Mortality and life expectancy forecast for (comparatively) high mortality countries

Life Expectancy and Mortality for Manitoba Women

securitization of mortality risks in life annuities

insurers have in the past few decades faced longevity risks - the risk that annuitants survive more than expected - and therefore need a new approach to manage this new risk. in this dissertation we survey methods that hedge longevity risks. these methods use securitization to manage risk, so using modern financial and insurance pricing models, especially wang transform and actuarial concepts, ...

Infant mortality and life expectancy in China

BACKGROUND It is reported that the infant mortality (IM) rate decreased rapidly in China and the life expectancy (LE) also had a high increase. Our objective was to determine the health status of the Chinese population by investigating IM and LE and their inter-relationship. MATERIAL AND METHODS Based on a literature review on the history and current status of IM and LE in China and other maj...

Life Expectancy and Mortality in Intellectual Disability

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Universal Mortality Law, Life Expectancy and Immortality

Well protected human and laboratory animal populations with abundant resources are evolutionary unprecedented, and their survival far beyond reproductive age may be a byproduct rather than tool of evolution. Physical approach, which takes advantage of their extensively quantified mortality, establishes that its dominant fraction yields the exact law, and suggests its unusual mechanism. The law ...