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Sources and Characteristics of the Principal Mortality Tables
By James S. Elston · Published 1932 · Public domain (original) · Scan © Glenn Cooke
A compilation of mortality tables, throughout time. There’s mortality tables reproduced in this book from the 1700’s into the 1800’s. Quite a collection!
The Excel data
The downloadable sourcesandcharacteristicsofprincipalmortality.zip contains selected pages from the original book transcribed into Excel, plus a high-resolution image of each transcribed page (the image filename matches the corresponding .xlsx).
The data is in the public domain. You're welcome to use it; we just ask you link back to the archive so others can find it.
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