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Practice Death Rate Calculations

The graph shows some imaginary mortality statistics for several countries. For the sake of simplicity, the age-dependence of mortality is reduced to just two groups:

young people age 40 and below
older people age 41 and above.

Mortality (per 100) in Old Group

Mortality (per 100) in Young Group

A(Old=5, Y=4)

B(Old=7, Y=9)

C(Old=2, Y=8)

D(Old=9, Y=3)

1. Calculate the overall mortality rate (per 1000) in each country. Assume that the populations are as follows:

Country Old      Young

A          200       800

B          100       900

C          600       400

D          400       100

2. Calculate an age-adjusted mortality rate for each country. Take this as the standard population

Country             Old       Young

Standard Pop.  400       600