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Project

Mortality and Mortality Disparities in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Conducted by Dmitri A. Jdanov; Domantas Jasilionis, Moradhvaj Dhakad; in Collaboration with Nandita Saikia (International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, India), László Németh (Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, Berlin, Germany), Rasul Afza (Lahore College for Women University, Pakistan), Özer Bakar (Hacettepe University, Turkey)

This project focuses on producing internationally comparable mortality estimates at the national and subnational levels for selected low- and middle-income countries. The project relies on the experience of the Human Mortality Database in data collection, harmonization, methods, and data dissemination.  Detailed Description

Research Keywords:

Aging, Mortality and Longevity, Data and Surveys, Health Care, Public Health, Medicine, and Epidemiology

Region keywords:

Africa, America, Asia

Publications

Rasul, A.; Nasir, J. A.; Jasilionis, D.; Jdanov, D. A.:
PLOS One 20:8, 1–18. (2025)    
Jasilionis, D.; Jdanov, D. A.:
In: Handbook of global health, 993–1012. Cham: Springer International Publishing. (2021)
Kühn, M.; Díaz-Venegas, C.; Jasilionis, D.; Oksuzyan, A.:
European Journal of Ageing 18:2, 217–226. (2021)    
Jasilionis, D.; Jdanov, D. A.:
International Journal of Epidemiology 48:5, 1601–1603. (2019)
Oksuzyan, A.; Singh, P. K.; Christensen, K.; Jasilionis, D.:
The Gerontologist 58:6, 1156–1165. (2018)    
Singh, P. K.; Jasilionis, D.; Oksuzyan, A.:
SSM-Population Health 5, 180–187. (2018)    
Saikia, N.; Kumar Bora, J.; Jasilionis, D.; Shkolnikov, V. M.:
PLOS One 11:8, e0159809–e0159809. (2016)
Saikia, N.; Shkolnikov, V. M.; Jasilionis, D.; Chandrashekhar, C.:
N-IUSSP. (2016)
Saikia, N.; Jasilionis, D.; Ram, F.; Shkolnikov, V. M.:
Population Studies 65:1, 73–89. (2011)
Saikia, N.; Jasilionis, D.; Ram, F.; Shkolnikov, V. M.:
MPIDR Technical Report TR-2010-006. (2010)
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