Volume 29 - Article 13 | Pages 323–354  

Impact of different mortality forecasting methods and explicit assumptions on projected future life expectancy: The case of the Netherlands

By Lenny Stoeldraijer, Coen van Duin, Leo van Wissen, Fanny Janssen

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