This report presents model life tables for developing countries. It gives sets of age-sex patterns of mortality which are based on reliably documented developing country data, thus supplementing the Coale-Demeny model life tables extracted mainly from historical European experience. Both the United Nations model life tables for developing countries and the Coale-Demeny model life tables are also available in the United Nations software package MORTPAK.

Since Model Life Tables for Developing Countries is no longer available in printed form, it is made available here in electronic form in Adobe PDF format.

 

Preface and Table of contents (English, French, Spanish) (1,963 KB)

Introduction (English, French, Spanish) (374 KB)

Chapter I: Description of the data base (English, French, Spanish) (733 KB)
Chapter II: Construction of the model life tables (English, French, Spanish) (1,578 KB)
Chapter III: Overview of the model age patterns (English, French, Spanish) (3,011 KB)
Chapter IV: Use of the model tables (English, French, Spanish) (3,352 KB)
Chapter V: Sex differentials in mortality (English, French, Spanish) (1,088 KB)
Chapter VI: Description of the annexes (English, French, Spanish) (467 KB)


Annexes

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