Explanation of the “GrowthRateComponents.r" file This is an R script code created using: R Core Team. 2021. R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing. Vienna, Austria: R Foundation for Statistical Computing. http://www.R-project.org/. ****The data needed for running this file is found in the free available database the Human Mortality Database at: www.mortality.org **** Interested user should sign up to the HMD and download the database in their computer to then run the Growth Rate Components code.