Will life expectancy increase indefinitely by three months every year?

Population and Societies

Volumn , Issue 473, 2010, Pages 1-4

  Vallin, Jacques ^a   Meslé, France ^a  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL D'ÉTUDES DÉMOGRAPHIQUES   (France)

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