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Blog
Does smoking affect mortality improvements?
Smoking kills. No surprises there. It has also been recognised in the pricing of term insurance in the UK since the early 1980s and more recently in annuity pricing…
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Spotlight on Longevity April 2015: Smoking habits - the impact on mortality improvements
The adverse impact of smoking on life expectancy has been widely-recognised for many years. Our analysis suggests that around 20% of the observed improvements in UK…
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Mortality improvements by cause of death
After many years of rapid mortality improvements in the UK population, 2012 and 2013 saw significantly lower gains.
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Briefing
Spotlight on Longevity: Mortality improvements - what changed in 2012 and 2013?
After many years of rapid mortality improvements in the UK population, 2012 and 2013 saw significantly lower gains. Here we investigate how recent improvements var…
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Spotlight on Longevity March 2014: Mortality improvements for insurance and pensioner portfolios
We analyse historical mortality improvements for pension schemes and the general population and find that recent improvements have been higher for pension schemes.
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Spotlight on Longevity October 2013: An evolving view of the accuracy of high-age population estimates
An evolving view of the accuracy of high-age population estimates. Higher than expected deaths of the very elderly in 2012 have eased previous concerns over the ac…
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Spotlight on Longevity May 2013: Seasonal mortality
Significant seasonal variation in mortality is commonly observed in England and Wales population data. Such features, and their trend over time, have important imp…
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Spotlight on Longevity February 2013: High-age mortality convergence
Significant variations in mortality are often observed at working ages for different subgroups of a population.
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Spotlight on Longevity December 2012: Update on revised population estimates
The 2011 Census led to a significant reduction in population estimates at high ages (80+). Our latest Spotlight provides an update on revised population estimates.
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Spotlight on Longevity November 2012: Mortality trends by cause of death
This Spotlight analyses the trends by cause over the last decade and looks ahead at where this is material scope for further gains and the key drivers for future im…