Decomposing U.S. Crude Death Rates, 2010-2024: Population Aging Dominates, and the Denominator Is Not Stable
A reproducible analysis of United States mortality, 2010-2024, making two contributions. The decomposition. The change in the crude death rate is split into an age-specific mortality component and a population age-structure component using the Kitagawa method. Over the full interval the age-structure component exceeds...