Old and new perspectives on mortality forecasting

Abstract

More than 10 years have gone since the Swedish Social Insurance Agency published a series of booklets entitled Perspectives on Mortality Forecasting. Five volumes appeared in print, on different topics that all are relevant for anyone faced with the task of computing a forecast of mortality in future years. Each volume contained the papers presented in a series of workshops organized by the Stockholm Committee on Mortality Forecasting during the years 2002–2007. The current volume contains reprints of the contributions to the five booklets. Each part of this book corresponds to one original booklet. We gratefully acknowledge the financial support from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research for the publication of this book and from the Swedish Social Insurance Agency for organizing the Committee’s workshops.