A Different Approach to Current Developments in the Twenty-First Century – Grouping European Countries in Terms of Mortality

Panagiotis Andreopoulos (), Fragkiskos G. Bersimis () and Alexandra Tragaki ()
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Panagiotis Andreopoulos: Harokopio University, Department of Geography
Fragkiskos G. Bersimis: Harokopio University, Department of Informatics and Telematics
Alexandra Tragaki: Harokopio University, Department of Geography

Chapter Chapter 24 in Quantitative Methods in Demography, 2022, pp 373-385 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This work describes human mortality through a different spatial approach. Analysis comprises twenty-two (22) European countries and examines their projected values of model parameters. The mortality model used is the Beta Gompertz Generalized Makeham distribution. The grouping of countries relies on two different methods: Pareto analysis and Cluster analysis; both are statistical techniques, applied in decision making, that classify similar cases in respect to specific criteria. In this work grouping is based on the four parameters of the Beta Gompertz Generalized Makeham distribution, namely the infant mortality (θ), the aging – expressed as the number of older people in a country over 70 in the total population (ξ), the random risk factor depending on age (κ) and the random risk factor affecting the total (λ) of each country. Results help identifying some interesting similarities and differences across European countries.

Keywords: Gompertz and Makeham functions; BGGM distribution; Mortality dynamics; Projections (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-93005-9_24

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