Years Added to Life in Old Age

Authors

• Kannisto Väinö

DOI: https://doi.org/10.23979/fypr.44971

Keywords:

mortality, life expectancy, old age

Abstract

The momentous transition from high to low mortality - and thereby to modern
society - has been thoroughly studied by measuring the dynamics of mortality by
age and sex and by cause of death as well as by the ubiquitous summary measure,
the life expectancy at birth. In the following, we look at it from a slightly different
angle, the years added to different stages of life, particularly to old age.