Publisher Copyright: © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY 4.0 license.; Comprehensive, comparable, and timely estimates of demographic metrics—including life expectancy and age-specific mortality—are essential for evaluating, understanding, and addressing trends in population health. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of timely and all-cau...
Funding Information: This paper uses data from SHARE Waves 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 (DOIs: 10.6103/SHARE.w5.800, 10.6103/SHARE.w6.800, 10.6103/SHARE.w7.800, 10.6103/SHARE.w8.800, 10.6103/SHARE.w8ca.800, 10.6103/SHARE.w9ca800) see B\u00F6rsch-Supan et al. for methodological details. (reference 15 in text) The SHARE data collection has been funded by the European Commission, DG RTD through FP5 (QLK6-CT-2001-00360), FP6 (...
Funding Information: This study was supported by the UK's Joint Health Systems Research Initiative (DFID/MRC/Wellcome Trust/ESRC) grant number MR/P014593/1. This funder had no role in the study design, in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data, in the writing of the report, or in the decision to submit the paper for publication. Publisher Copyright: © 2022 The Author(s); Background: Robust evidenc...
Joao Conde acknowledges the European Research Council, ERC starting grant agreement No 848325.; BACKGROUND: Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 has targeted elimination of preventable child mortality, reduction of neonatal death to less than 12 per 1000 livebirths, and reduction of death of children younger than 5 years to less than 25 per 1000 livebirths, for each country by 2030. To understand current rates, rec...