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Table 1 Data sources used to calculate the health stock

From: Heterogeneous global health stock and growth: quantitative evidence from 140 countries, 1990–2100

No

Data

Explanation

Sources

1.

Population by age

Data provided by the United Census Bureau. We used population data by five-year age groups and both sexes for each country (140 countries) for the year 1990–2015.

https://www.census.gov/data-tools/demo/idb/region.php?N=%20Results%20&T=10&A=separate&RT=0&Y=2018&R=1&C=US

2.

Probability of dying by age

The probability of dying by age also refers to the mortality age. We used the number of people dying between ages x and x + n (ndx) for the years 1990–2015.

http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.imr.LIFE_0000000032?lang=en