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What is life expectancy? And, even more important, what it isn't

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  • Kashnitsky, Ilya

    (University of Southern Denmark)

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It really is a remarkable achievement and maybe a lot of luck that the world mundanely operates with such a complex indicator as life expectancy. Unlike many statistics and quantities of general use that are being monitored and reported regularly, life expectancy is not observed directly. It's an output of a mathematical model called life table. And as any model it comes with a certain load of assumptions and limitations, which are easily forgotten and omitted in the everyday interpretations and misinterpretations of the indicator.

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  • Kashnitsky, Ilya, 2021. "What is life expectancy? And, even more important, what it isn't," OSF Preprints s2nrp, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:osfxxx:s2nrp
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/s2nrp
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