5 Demographic characteristics of mortality
Along with fertility, mortality plays the leading role in reproduction of population. For each human being, the fact of death represents a biological phenomenon. Let us be abstracted from the moment of this event. Then the “fact of early or late death” appears strictly deterministic (in contrast to individual acts of births that can be not realized).
As a term, mortality is a mass process which results from numerous individual deaths occurring for members of a certain sex-age group or different groups and defining (in aggregate) the attrition of a real generation. As a purely biological event, the death of a human being forms the final state of his life process that took place in definite spatial areas, ...
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