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Stagnation of life expectancy in Korea in 2018: A cause-specific decomposition analysis.
PLoS ONE, 2020 According to the most recent annual report released by Korea Statistics, the life expectancy at birth (for both sexes) in 2018 was 82.7 years, an increase of 0.0 years over 2017, reflecting the first stagnation in life expectancy since 1960.
Taejae Kim +3 more
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An analysis of life expectancy and economic production using expectile frontier zones [PDF]
, 2009 The wealth of a country is assumed to have a strong non-linear influence on the life expectancy of its inhabitants. We follow up on research by Preston and study the relationship with gross domestic product.
Schnabel, S.K. +7 more
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Mortality and life expectancy of Indigenous Australians 2008 to 2012 [PDF]
, 2014 This report provides an overview of current patterns and trends in mortality and life expectancy among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
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Global Trends in Life Expectancy and Healthy Life Expectancy
, 2023 Abstract In the known history of humanity, life expectancy scarcely exceeded 30 years, with half of newborns dying before age five, up to the 18th century. However, from the 18th century onward, major epidemics were combatted more efficiently, famines became less frequent, and life expectancy thus began to increase, first in Northwest
Cambois, Emmanuelle +2 more
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Changing mortality and average cohort life expectancy [PDF]
Period life expectancy varies with changes in mortality, and should not be confused with the life expectancy of those alive during that period. Given past and likely future mortality changes, a recent debate has arisen on the usefulness of the period ...
Robert Schoen, Vladimir Canudas-Romo
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Living healthier for longer: comparative effects of three heart-healthy behaviors on life expectancy with and without cardiovascular disease [PDF]
, 2009 Background: Non-smoking, having a normal weight and increased levels of physical activity are perhaps the three key factors for preventing cardiovascular disease (CVD).
Peeters, A. (Anna) +15 more
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, 2015 The analysis of life expectancy and longevity is one approach to analysing diversity in the population of ancient Egypt. It is, however, important to understand the difficulties in such calculations and in the data from which such calculations are derived. Adult age is difficult to determine either from documentary or biological sources, so average age-
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Epidemics and Forecasts of Life Expectancy
Gerontology, 2021 In 1997, Vaupel [1] wrote a rather optimistic paper entitled “The average French baby may live 95 or 100 years.” While the author stressed that “environmental collapse, nuclear devastation, etc.” may nevertheless lead the 1996 birth cohort to “short, miserable lives,” he favoured the hypothesis that “if health, economic and social progress accelerate ...
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Life expectancy: Lower and upper bounds from surviving fractions and remaining life expectancy
Demographic Research, 2011 We give simple upper and lower bounds on life expectancy. In a life-table population, if e(0) is the life expectancy at birth, M is the median length of life, and e(M) is the expected remaining life at age M, then (M+e(M))/2≤e(0)≤M+e ...
Joel E. Cohen
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Life Expectancy at Birth in Milwaukee County: A Zip Code-Level Analysis
Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews, 2017 Purpose: Life expectancy at birth is used as a barometer of the health and well-being of a population. Life expectancies vary widely across Wisconsin counties.
Erica S. LeCounte, Geoffrey R. Swain
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