Package: MortalityLaws 2.2.2

Marius D. Pascariu

MortalityLaws: Parametric Mortality Models, Life Tables and HMD

Fit the most popular human mortality 'laws', and construct full and abridge life tables given various input indices. A mortality law is a parametric function that describes the dying-out process of individuals in a population during a significant portion of their life spans. For a comprehensive review of the most important mortality laws see Tabeau (2001) <doi:10.1007/0-306-47562-6_1>. Practical functions for downloading data from various human mortality databases are provided as well.

Authors:Marius D. Pascariu [aut, cre, cph], Vladimir Canudas-Romo [ctb]

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MortalityLaws/json (API)

# Install 'MortalityLaws' in R:
install.packages('MortalityLaws', repos = c('https://mpascariu.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://github.com/mpascariu/mortalitylaws/issues

Datasets:
  • ahmd - MortalityLaws Test Data

On CRAN:

Conda:

actuarial-sciencedemographydownload-hmdhuman-mortality-lawslife-tablemortality

7.73 score 37 stars 2 packages 121 scripts 773 downloads 41 exports 33 dependencies

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Dependencies:askpassbitopsclicpp11curldplyrgenericsgluehttrjsonlitelifecyclemagrittrmimeopensslpbapplypillarpkgconfigpurrrR6RCurlrlangrvestselectrstringistringrsystibbletidyrtidyselectutf8vctrswithrxml2

Installing MortalityLaws
Install the stable version from CRAN | Install the development version from GitHub | Step 1: Install devtools | Step 2: Set up a development environment | Step 3: Install MortalityLaws from GitHub | Step 4: Verify the installation | Updating an existing installation | References
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Last update: 2026-05-04
Started: 2026-05-04

Introduction to MortalityLaws
Package structure | Downloading HMD data | Model fitting and diagnosis | Examining the fitted model | Fitting on a subset of ages | Age scaling for numerical stability | Mortality laws in the package | Loss functions in the package | Custom mortality laws | Full life tables | Abridged life tables | Citation | References
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Last update: 2026-05-04
Started: 2018-08-16