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Multilingual Demographic Dictionary, second unified edition, English volume

Mortality of old age

Multilingual Demographic Dictionary, second unified edition, English vol.
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Mortality of old age  (MORTALITY of old age)


In the study of age-specific mortality 1, the terms infant mortality (410-2) and neo-natal mortality (410-3) refer to generally accepted time periods. The usage of such terms as child mortality 2, youth mortality 3★, adult mortality 4 or mortality of old age 5 is not uniform. Post-infantile child death rate 6 sometimes refers to the death rate between one and 4 years of age. More...