Monograph title Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. The data 3. Probability of dying 4. Old age life tables 5. Changing mortality 6. Life expectancy at age 80 7. Other longevity parameters 8. Age shift in mortality 9. Slope of mortality 10. The road from 80 to 100 11. The centenarians 12. Gender and mortality 13. Stationary population 14. The changing survival curve 15. Realized living potential 16. Seven ways of looking at mortality change 17. Growing number of old people 18. The expanding frontier of survival 19. Conclusions References Annex tables Tables Figures