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Age Structure of Mortality in Developing Countries

Cover of Age Structure of Mortality in Developing Countries Report

This publication presents a data base of national life tables from developing countries. The database consists of 78 national life tables from 43 developing populations covering a period from the mid 1940s to the early 1980s. The life tables are based on recorded deaths by age and sex, and the population at risk by age and sex.

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  • Preface and Table of contents (1,425 KB)
  • Introduction (947 KB)
  • Chapter I: Sources of data (1,374 KB)
  • Chapter II: Life tables (4,225 KB)
    • Africa
    • Americas
    • Asia
  • Chapter III: The data base in machine-readable form (1,913 KB)
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