United Nations (1986). Age Structure of Mortality in Developing Countries. A Database for
      Cross-Sectional and Time Series Research. ST/ESA/SER.R/66.

 

This publication presents a data base of national life tables from developing countries. The database consists of 78 national life tables from 43 developing populations covering a period from the mid 1940s to the early 1980s. The life tables are based on recorded deaths by age and sex, and the population at risk by age and sex.

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Preface and Table of contents (1,425 KB)

Introduction (947 KB)

Chapter I: Sources of data (1,374 KB)
Chapter II: Life tables (4,225 KB)

Chapter III: The data base in machine-readable form (1,913 KB)

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