Over-Using Life Expectancy

This is the second part of a series on the uses and misuses of mortality metrics. Life table construction is beyond the scope of this article, but the reader will need some familiarity with life tables in order to understand the issues. See this related document which illustrates life table construction and the calculation of life expectancy.

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