Ideally, life expectancy should be a decreasing function of age. When this fact is not observed, situation known as the table paradox. This paper investigated timing (and health metrics at time) in which Brazil and its Federation Units (FU) overcame (or are expected to overcome) The data were gathered from Brazilian Institute Geography Statistics contained 3,416 sex-specific abridged tables, 20...

Life expectancies at birth are routinely computed from period life tables. Such period life expectancies may be distorted by selection when comparing countries where the living conditions improved earlier (like Norway and Sweden) with countries where they improved later (like Italy and Japan). One way to get a fair comparison between the countries, is to use cohort data and consider the expecte...