Old and New Perspectives on Mortality Forecasting

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Life Expectancy Is Taking Center Place in Modern National Pension Schemes – A New Challenge for the Art of Projecting Mortality

Chapter 3 Experiences from Forecasting Mortality in Finland

Chapter 4 Mortality Projections in Norway

Chapter 5 Mortality Assumptions for Sweden. The 2000–2050 Population Projection

Chapter 6 Forecasting Life Expectancy: The SCOPE Approach

Chapter 7 Mortality Forecasts. Comments on How to Improve Existing Models – An Epidemiologist’s Perspective

Chapter 8 The Need for Looking Far Back in Time When Predicting Future Mortality Trends

Chapter 9 Erroneous Population Forecasts

Chapter 10 Remarks on the Use of Probabilities in Demography and Forecasting

Chapter 11 An Expert Knowledge Approach to Stochastic Mortality Forecasting in the Netherlands

Chapter 12 Stochastic Forecasts of Mortality, Population and Pension Systems

Chapter 13 The Linear Rise in the Number of Our Days

Chapter 14 Mortality Forecasts and Linear Life Expectancy Trends

Chapter 15 Forecasting Life Expectancy: A Statistical Look at Model Choice and Use of Auxiliary Series

Chapter 16 Life Expectancy Convergence Among Nations Since 1820: Separating the Effects of Technology and Income

Chapter 17 Linear Increase in Life Expectancy: Past and Present

Chapter 18 How Useful Are the Causes of Death When Extrapolating Mortality Trends. An Update

Chapter 19 Forecasting Life Expectancy and Mortality in Sweden – Some Comments on Methodological Problems and Potential Approaches

Chapter 20 How Analysis of Mortality by Cause of Death Is Currently Influencing UK Forecasts

Chapter 21 A Life Course Perspective to the Modern Secular Mortality Decline and Socioeconomic Differences in Morbidity and Mortality in Sweden

Chapter 22 Early Life Events and Later Life Health: Twin and Famine Studies

Chapter 23 The Month of Birth: Evidence for Declining but Persistent Cohort Effects in Lifespan

Chapter 24 Early-Life Conditions and Old-Age Mortality in a Comparative Perspective: Nineteenth Century Sweden and Belgium