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Individual Longevity Versus Population Longevity

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The term longevity is usually associated with long life and with the property of being long-lived, whereas in demography it is also a synonym for life expectancy, the average duration of life within a population. As such, the concept of longevity has double meaning: individual longevity related to long-lived individuals and population longevity usually described by the demographic indicator of the life expectancy. This contribution aims at distinguishing two concepts of longevity that nowadays stimulate numerous scientific investigations.

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Poulain, M. (2019). Individual Longevity Versus Population Longevity. In: Caruso, C. (eds) Centenarians. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20762-5_4

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