Wed Mar 31 04:12:22 EST 2004
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Annual life tables for several countries are available at the Human Mortality Database:
http://www.mortality.org/
The English ones start in 1841.
Best regards,
marco
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Marco Sunder
University of Munich
email: marco at econhist.de
Thomas E. Getzen wrote:
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>The US life tables do seem to indicate a substantial gain--wouldn't the
>Union Soldier's retirement studies by Costa and Fogel provide fairly
>definitive answers to this. Also, there is a time series paper by Deaton
>and ?Paxon on mortality rates for UK and US (I believe it is on Deaton's
>website at Princeton) which --if my memory is correct,
>
>Ah: here is some data: Years of remaining life expectancy at age 80 = 7.1
>in 1990 v. 5.10 in 1902,
>at age 60 18.7 v. 14.3 (U.S. Life tables).
>tom getzen
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>From: owner-EHB at eh.net [mailto:owner-EHB at eh.net]On Behalf Of John Komlos
>Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 8:21 AM
>To: Ehb
>Subject: EHB: WG: Are we getting older?
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>Does anyone have a good answer for this question?
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>Von: Molinari, Luciano [mailto:Luciano.Molinari at kispi.unizh.ch]
>Gesendet: Montag, 29. Mdrz 2004 14:49
>An: 'John Komlos'
>Betreff: Are we getting older?
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>Dear John,
>
>Has the proportion of older people been increasing in recent years. Well, of
>course it has, I guess. But can we go a little farther?
>Is my life expectation after 60 (that is assuming that I am alive at 60,
>which is exactly my case) higher than it was a hundred years ago? or for my
>parents? And what about the life expectation after 80 or 90?
>
>Or perhaps even more subtle: has the life expectation of very old HEALTHY
>people, been increasing in the recent past? Of course many, most, people die
>for some specific medical reason, but what about the others?
>Does the question make sense? What is your opinion? Are you aware of some
>recent paper on this topic?
>And where could one find suitable data to study the problem?
>
>Best regards,
>Luciano
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