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February 24, 2020Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesOpen Access

Dynamics of life expectancy and life span equality

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JAJosé Manuel AburtoUniversity of LondonFVFrancisco VillavicencioJohns Hopkins UniversityUBUgofilippo BaselliniMax Planck Institute for Demographic Research

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Implication

Randomized trial explores life expectancy and equality outcomes over time, suggesting improvements at younger ages enhance both metrics.

Key Points

  • This research examines the relationship between life expectancy and life span equality, highlighting factors that influence both measures over time.
  • Developed a framework to analyze life expectancy and life span equality using historical data.
  • Utilized data from the Human Mortality Database for 49 countries with a focus on Sweden’s long time series.
  • Analyzed changes in mortality rates and their impact on life expectancy and life span equality.
  • Both life expectancy and life span equality improved through reduced mortality rates, particularly at younger ages.
  • The relationship between life expectancy and life span equality is stronger when life expectancy is below 70 years.
  • Recent trends show that life expectancy and equality have sometimes diverged due to mortality improvements at older ages.

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Aburto et al. (2020) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69df3ec658b92af24d7a139chttps://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1915884117
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