Sterbetafel
Sterbetafel, known in English as a life table, is a statistical table that describes the mortality experience of a population by age. It summarizes how many people are alive at the start of each age interval, how many die during the interval, and the resulting implications for survival and life expectancy. Life tables are central to demography and actuarial science, and they underpin the pricing of insurance and pensions, as well as projections of population dynamics.
A typical life table presents a set of age-specific quantities. These include l_x, the number of people
There are different types of life tables. A period life table uses current mortality rates to describe
Construction and use: life tables are derived from mortality data, typically from civil registration, census, or