Use this mortality or life-table method when age intervals, deaths, exposures, survivorship, and open-ended interval assumptions refer to the same population and period.

l(x)

Survivors l(x) at each single age of the complete life table.

e(x)

Remaining life expectancy e(x) aligned with the survivors.

H

Entropy H measuring the sensitivity of e0 to age-specific mortality changes.

Life-table results depend on age grouping, exposure quality, the treatment of the first and terminal intervals, and assumptions about deaths within each interval. Sparse deaths can make rates unstable.

Complement a summary mortality result with age-specific death rates, survivorship, and exposure counts. A complete life table is preferable when the question involves several ages or remaining life expectancy.

• UN Model Life Table Pattern Lookup

  Validate and label one of the five patterns of the UN Model Life Tables for Developing Countries (1982): General, Latin American, Chilean, South Asian or Far Eastern.

• Abridged To Complete Extension Open Calculator

  Extend an abridged life table into the terminal open interval using L = l / m for person-years lived and e = 1 / m for the remaining expectancy at the open age.

• Adult Mortality 45q15 Calculator

  Convert age-specific death rates for the five-year groups from age 15 into the probability of dying between ages 15 and 60 using q = n m / (1 + (n - a) m), with a default a of n/2 years.