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 ...

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.

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 ...