Why life expectancy over-predicts crude death rate
Abstract Life expectancy is widely used and reported; for example, the UN Human Development Index uses life expectancy as a key component. But many users of period life expectancy do not understand and interpret life expectancy as demographers do. In particular, period life expectancy almost always...
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SpringerOpen
2023-04-01
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s41118-023-00188-8 |