OBJECTIVE Reliable estimates of age-specific mortality are essential in the study of health inequalities, well-being and to calculate other demographic indicators. This task comes with several ...

At the population level, age-specific rates of survival and reproduction ... Simple and effective guidelines for interpreting survival and mortality data are needed. Here we aim to provide such ...

The infant mortality rate is calculated by dividing ... of years that a person would live if he or she experienced the age-specific death rates that occurred at a particular point in time.