Mortality in the caucasus: An attempt to re-estimate recent mortality trends in Armenia and Georgia

Demographic Research

Volumn 22, Issue , 2010, Pages 691-732

  Duthé, Géraldine ^a   Badurashvili, Irina ^b   Kuyumjyan, Karine ^c   Meslé, France ^a   Vallin, Jacques ^a  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL D'ÉTUDES DÉMOGRAPHIQUES   (France)

^b Georgian Centre of Population Research (wwwgcprge)   (France)

^c National Statistical Service of the Republic of Armenia (http://wwwarmstatam)   (Armenia)

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EID: 77955044466     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14359871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2010.22.23     Document Type: Article

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