Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual Meeting explores the status and impact of AIDS in the U.S., Canada and elsewhere in the world.

Description: Discusses the content of the 1970 Census of the United States, which will soon be available

Description: This presentation was made at the 1975 Spring Cincinnati Joint Meeting of the Conference of Actuaries in Public Practice and Society of Actuaries and it highlights the following issues: What are the retirement needs of a population?, what are suitable methods of providing social insurance, private pensions,and savings?, what are the political, economic, and sociological implications of various solutions?, and what perspective on this problem does Canadian experience provide.

Description: This article is a review and analysis of “Mankind at the Turning Point: the Second Report to the Club of Rome,” by Mihajlo Mesarovi and Eduard Pestel, published in 1974. The author notes that this work was initiated by the Club of Rome with the specific objective of meeting the more serious criticisms leveled at the original study, the Forrester-Meadows Limits to Growth report. The article discusses world growth and population, and the conclusions reached by the authors of the report.

Description: This is an update of a report published originally in June 20211 comparing total U.S. population mortality to baseline expectations by age and sex. The report now includes U.S. population numbers through August 17, 2022, so the years 2020 and 2021 are now mostly complete.

Description: Mortality Improvement Scale MP-2016 is an update to Mortality Improvement Scale MP-2015 that includes three additional years of historical U.S. population mortality data and modification of two input values designed to improve the model’s year-over-year financial stability. The page includes the updated Scale MP-2016, the accompanying Scale MP-2016 document, and an updated RPEC_2014_v2016 Model Implementation Tool for actuaries to create their own mortality improvement scales using RPEC’s model and the updated data set.

Description: This article provides a reasonable historical perspective of a priori established population projections.

Description: This paper presents how to compute how fast a country is growing. From the Actuarial Research Clearing House 1991 VOL.2.

Description: Article from The Actuary, June 1972 – volume 6 - Issue 6 provides a book review of The Methods and Materials of Demography published by the Bureau of Census.

Description: This report covers historical mortality from 1999-2018 by race as categorized by population data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) WONDER database. Mortality for all deaths and six specific causes of death are considered over this period. Additionally, in 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced mortality as a whole and this report shows the breakdown of COVID-19 deaths by race.