Is the pace of japanese mortality decline converging toward international trends?

Population and Development Review

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 593-600

  Wilmoth, John R ^a  

^a NONE

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Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; LONGEVITY; MORTALITY;

JAPAN;

EID: 0032439951     PISSN: 00987921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2808156     Document Type: Article

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