MortalityLaws: Parametric Mortality Models, Life Tables and HMD

Fit the most popular human mortality 'laws', and construct full and abridged 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.

Version: 3.0.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.5.0)
Imports: pbapply (≥ 1.7-4), httr (≥ 1.4.8)
Suggests: testthat (≥ 3.3.2), knitr, rmarkdown
Published: 2026-10-07
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.MortalityLaws
Author: Marius D. Pascariu ORCID iD [aut, cre, cph], Vladimir Canudas-Romo [ctb]
Maintainer: Marius D. Pascariu <mpascariu at outlook.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/mpascariu/MortalityLaws/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://mpascariu.github.io/MortalityLaws/, https://github.com/mpascariu/MortalityLaws
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: README, NEWS
In views: ActuarialScience
CRAN checks: MortalityLaws results

Documentation:

Reference manual: MortalityLaws.html , MortalityLaws.pdf
Vignettes: Intro (source, R code)
Life tables (source, R code)
Mortality models (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: MortalityLaws_3.0.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: MortalityLaws_2.2.0.zip, r-release: MortalityLaws_2.2.0.zip, r-oldrel: MortalityLaws_2.2.0.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): MortalityLaws_3.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): MortalityLaws_2.2.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): MortalityLaws_2.2.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): MortalityLaws_2.2.0.tgz
Old sources: MortalityLaws archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse imports: demofit, vital
Reverse suggests: MortalityGaps, ungroup
Reverse enhances: MortalityTables

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