TY  - JOUR
A1  - Cheung, Siu Lan Karen
A1  - Robine, Jean-Marie
A1  - Paccaud, Fred
A1  - Marazzi, Alfio
T1  - Dissecting the compression of mortality in Switzerland, 1876-2005
Y1  - 2009/10/23
JF  - Demographic Research
JO  - Demographic Research
SN  - 1435-9871
SP  - 569
EP  - 598
DO  - 10.4054/DemRes.2009.21.19
VL  - 21
IS  - 19
UR  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol21/19/
L1  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol21/19/21-19.pdf
L2  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol21/19/21-19.pdf
N2  - This paper aims to examine changes in common longevity and variability of the adult life span, and attempts to answer whether or not the compression of mortality continues in Switzerland in the years 1876-2005. The results show that the negative relationships between the large increase in the adult modal age at death, observed at least from the 1920s, and the decrease in the standard deviation of the ages at deaths occurring above it, illustrate a significant compression of adult mortality. Typical adult longevity increased by about 10% during the last fifty years in Switzerland, and adult heterogeneity in the age at death decreased in the same proportion. This analysis has not found any evidence suggesting that we are approaching longevity limits in term of modal or even maximum life spans. It ascertains a slowdown in the reduction of adult heterogeneity in longevity, already observed in Japan and other low mortality countries.

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