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Mortality Reductions: Fast for Poorer Nations, Slow for Richer Nations


Abstract: The same increase in life expectancy took longer for a sample of today’s richer countries than it did for some of today’s poorer countries, but it also occurred earlier.

Keywords: life expectancy; mortality;

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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Part of Series: The Regional Economist

Publication Date: 2022-06-22