Description: This article is an introduction to the topic of mortality projections and their impact on social security systems. The article reviews two life expectancy graphs and overall trends in life expectancy by gender at birth and age 65 in the United States, Canada and the UK.

Description: This paper compares two mortality projection models – the latest version of the CMI Mortality Projections Model and the latest version of MIM-2021.Both models were applied to data for England & Wales and the US, and the results were compared.

Description: This report provides early insights into the level of U.S. population mortality in 2018

Description: In this article, the authors review the International Experience Study updates.

Description: This mortality study, prepared by the Society of Actuaries Reinsurance Council and Manulife, is based on 1997 and 1998 large amount – face greater than $1 million - mortality experience of the six contributing reinsurance companies.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that measures the magnitude of the systematic bias, found when using the Lee-Carter model for mortality prediction, using the bootstrap method and also provides suggestions on how to correct the bias.

Description: The Society of Actuaries Group Annuity Experience Committee has completed this report, which presents the 2003 through 2006 calendar year experience of retired individuals in the United States who are covered under group pension contracts. The committee has also presented the results in pivot table format to allow readers to easily customize their analyses to suit their individual purposes. This is that table which is call 2001-2006 Group Annuity Pivot Table. Please see the SOA website experience studies for the full report.

Description: The 1990–95 Basic Select and Ultimate Mortality Tables for Individual Life Insurance are now available. Four tables have been produced age nearest birthday and age last birthday tables for both males and females. The tables have been produced for individual issue ages 0 through 99 on a 25–year select basis and for ultimate attained ages 25 through 110. There is a breakdown by smoking status and by policy size.

Description: Ronald Fawthrop and Brian Holland of the SOA’s Individual Life Experience Committee provided a preview of an upcoming individual life mortality study at the SOA’s Life and Annuity Symposium on May 9, 2017. Their presentations are available here.

Description: The abstract for the paper The Lee-Carter Model for Forecasting Mortality Revisited.