Application of the Lee-Carter Model to Uruguay
- Autores: Guillermo Magnou, María Cecilia Salles Fagundez
- Localización: COMPENDIUM: Cuadernos de Economía y Administración, ISSN-e 1390-9894, ISSN 1390-8391, Vol. 11, Nº. 3, 2024 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Revista Compendium: Cuadernos de Economía y Administración), págs. 170-179
- Idioma: inglés
- Títulos paralelos:
- Aplicación del modelo Lee-Carter a Uruguay
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Resumen
The Lee-Carter Model is one of the most popular methodologies for forecasting mortality rates. The model is widely known to be simple and has been used very successfully in U.S. and several countries. This model uses principal component analysis to decompose the age-time matrix of mortality rates into a bilinear combination of age and period parameters, with the latter being treated as time series to produce mortality projections. This paper describes the application of the Lee-Carter model to age-specific death rates by gender in Uruguay. These rates are available for the period that goes from 1974 to 2020. We concluded by forecasting the mortality rates for the time period that goes from 2021 to 2050 in order to project life expectancy at birth using life tables.
