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Life tables present the age incidence of mortality in a population. The population may be all those people in a country or other area, or some category within a country; it may be all persons counted at a particular moment or period of time, say 1980 (period table); or it may be those born at a particular time and followed through life (cohort table).
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Keyfitz, N. (2018). Life Tables. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_989
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