Description: The primary focus of this study was a comprehensive review of recent mortality experience of public retirement plans in the United States.

Description: Report to describe the 2015 Valuation Basic Tables for individual life insurance products that reflect standard and preferred underwriting criteria

Description: The Preferred Mortality Valuation Table Team prepared this presentation for the June 2008 NAIC LHATF Meeting. The Adobe Acrobat file on the SOA website for experience studies contains the presentation.This Excel workbook is a tool the valuation table team is using to develop values relating to margins for the new valuation mortality table. The purpose of the workbook is to evaluate different margin formulas and valuation tables. Also used for analysis of mortality margins on Valuation Basic Tables.

Description: The Mortality Improvement Survey Subcommittee of the Society's Committee on Life Insurance Mortality & Underwriting Surveys has completed its report on the results of a survey to examine mortality improvement practices with respect to reinsurance pricing in both the US and Canada. A few questions were asked about functions other than pricing.

Description: This page contains research and research tools related to U.S. population data.

Description: In 2008, the Society of Actuaries Retirement Plans Experience Committee undertook a new pension plan mortality study. The ultimate goal of the study was to update the RP–2000 Mortality Table. This is a zip file containing the three documents which comprised the study's data request.

Description: The Group Life COVID-19 Mortality Survey gathers a high-level view of U.S. Group Term Life Insurance mortality results during the COVID-19 pandemic through June 2023, as compared to prior period baseline mortality results. This new report is an update to the survey report released in May 2023, which contained data through December 2022.

Description: Historical U.S. population mortality rates by gender and single year of age for calendar years 2000-2016.

Description: This article discusses whether or not the Preferred risk class wears off over time.

Description: Opioids overdoses have contributed to increases in mortality among white American. This article gives some detail on the speed and the reach of the epidemic.