Faster Increases in Human Life Expectancy Could Lead to Slower Population Aging

Counterintuitively, faster increases in human life expectancy could lead to slower population aging. The conventional view that faster increases in human life expectancy would lead to faster population aging is based on the assumption that people become old at a fixed chronological age. A preferable...

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Main Authors: Dowd, Jennifer Beam, Sanderson, Warren, Scherbov, Sergei
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Public Library of Science 2015
Online Access:http://epub.wu.ac.at/5917/1/Scherbov_etal_2015_PO_Faster%2DIncreases.PDF
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0121922