Book Chapter
The linear rise in the number of our days
Oeppen, J. E., Vaupel, J. W.
In: Bengtsson, T., Keilman, N. (Eds.): Old and new perspectives on mortality forecasting, 159–166
Demographic research monographs -
Cham, Springer (2019)
Abstract
If life expectancy – also known as the expectation of life, is the mean life-span of a cohort of newborns if current age-specific death rates remain unchanged – in developed countries were close to an ultimate limit, then increases in record life expectancy – the average length of life in the best-practice population – should slow as the ceiling is asymptotically approached.