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This chapter provide an overview of the mortality trends and projection models for Japan. First, we describe the mortality trends in Japan. We then review the general modeling for mortality and the official mortality projection for Japan. The proposed mortality model is used in the official population projection, which is one of the reasons for the development of a new projection model. Lastly, we review the LC model and its applications to Japan.
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The fitted function is the average of the exponential and logarithm functions, which are supposed to fit well with the recent trend in Japanese mortality.
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Ishii, F. (2023). Mortality Trends and Projection Models in Japan. In: Modeling Shifting Mortality, and Its Applications. SpringerBriefs in Population Studies(). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-2509-4_2
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