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Survival table

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Definition

An annual survival table follows the path of a fictional generation of 100,000 newborns subjected at each age to the mortality conditions observed in the various actual generations over the year being studied. To avoid the hazards of annual tables and provide as precise a table per age as possible, a survival table is also calculated covering a three-year period.