Mortality Comparisons and Age: a New Mortality Curve

John Creedy and S. Subramanian

No 21355, Working Paper Series from Victoria University of Wellington, Chair in Public Finance

Abstract: This paper introduces a new mortality curve to illustrate and measure mortality and its relation to age. The curve draws on the ‘Lorenz-Gini’ framework of income-inequality measurement. The paper advances the cause of a ‘mortality curve’ analogous to the Lorenz curve, and a ‘mortality-inefficiency’ measure analogous to the Gini coefficient of inequality. The idea is to supplement the Crude Death Rate (CDR) with a mortality-inefficiency measure in a composite index of mortality which attends to both the mean and the dispersion of an age-distribution of deaths.

Keywords: Mortality Curve; Mortality-inefficiency measure; Crude Death Rate; Optimally distributed equivalent death rate; Lorenz Curve; Gini coefficient; Mean income; Equally distributed equivalent income (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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