BACKGROUND Since the 1950s, many indirect or semi-indirect methods have been
developed to either adjust mortality estimates or generate complete life tables from mortality …

Most developing countries do not have complete registration of deaths on which to base
mortality estimates. Four broad categories of unconventional methods have been developed …

Testing theories about human senescence and longevity demands accurate information on
older-adult mortality; this is rare in low-to middle-income countries where raw data may be …

Background Survival to old ages is increasing in many African countries. While demographic
tools for estimating mortality up to age 60 have improved greatly, mortality patterns above …

Accurate knowledge of adult mortality levels and trends in the developing world is hampered
by a widespread lack of complete vital registration systems. Although knowledge of infant …

Background The study aims to assess two approaches that apply the empirical
completeness method to generate age-specific mortality statistics from incomplete death …

Estimating the level and trend in population mortality rates at advanced ages in South Africa
is complicated by problems with both the population and death data. Population and death …

Accurate estimates of mortality at advanced ages are essential to improving forecasts of
mortality and the population size of the oldest old age group. However, estimation of hazard …

Thanks to substantial improvements in child and adult survival through most parts of the
world in the last decades, old-age mortality accounts now for large fractions of death. Yet for …

This study estimates the mortality of the South African oldest old age population (in five year
age groups from age 75 up to the open age interval 100 and above) and in the process re …