The SOA’s Mortality & Longevity Strategic Research Program includes a wide array of actuarial research, surveys, papers and experience studies. Topics include population mortality, socioeconomic drivers of longevity, mortality predictions and mortality improvement.
Mortality & Longevity Strategic Research
The SOA Strategic Research Programs emphasize the skillset and thought leadership of actuaries, and help provide insights to members, stakeholders, and the public on socially relevant topics.
Mortality & Longevity Strategic Research
COVID Today: What is Scientifically Settled and What is Not? Webcast
Join the SOA and experts from the medical and insurance industries for an important discussion. Submit questions to be addressed during the webcast to Ronora Stryker. Register now.
SOA Talks Mortality
Dale Hall, FSA, CERA, CFA, MAAA, SOA managing director of research, discusses U.S. mortality challenges and trends.
Mortality By Socioeconomic Category
Learn about mortality disparities in the U.S.
Opioid Epidemic Cost $631 Billion

Read the SOA report on the economic impact of non-medical opioid use in the United States from 2015-2018. Learn about this analysis of longevity trends.
Understanding Individual Mortality Experience
Read about the findings from the 2009-2015 individual life experience studies.
2017 CSO Tables
See the collection of Commissioners Standard Ordinary tables.
Tapping into Experience Studies
See the wide array of mortality and longevity experience studies.
Tools You Can Use
The Actuaries Longevity Illustrator provides perspectives on longevity. Access this tool jointly developed by the Society of Actuaries and the American Academy of Actuaries.
Mort.soa.org provides a variety of mortality tables and other related tables.
U.S. Population Mortality
Review the latest 2018 mortality observations on the U.S. population.
Understanding Mortality and Longevity
Access the SOA’s collection of mortality and longevity research.
Modeling and Forecasting Cause-of-Death Mortality
The Product Development Section, the Financial Reporting Section, the Modeling Section and the Committee on Life Insurance Research are pleased to present new research on modeling and forecasting cause-of-death mortality.
Resources on Living Longer
Access the hundreds of papers and presentations from past Living to 100 symposia on mortality, aging and living longer.