Does selection of mortality model make a difference in projecting population ageing?

<b>Background</b>: In low mortality countries, assessing future ageing depends to a large extent on scenarios of future mortality reduction at old age. Often in population projections mortality reduction is implemented via life expectancy increases that do not specify mortality change at...

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Main Authors: Sergei Scherbov, Dalkhat Ediev
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research 2016-01-01
Series:Demographic Research
Online Access:http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol34/2/