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Life Tables and Age-Specific Mortality

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A life table divides a population into age intervals and reports mortality rate and remaining life expectancy for each interval, built from cohort survival data.

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A sheep-population life table shows mortality spiking sharply between two age intervals rather than staying constant.

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A life table's mortality rate is age-interval-specific, not one population-wide rate — the same population shows different risk at different ages.