Abstract
Women, on average, have higher life expectancies than men, though sex differences in mortality vary from country to country and over time. In this paper I propose to examine and compare over an extended period of time the trends and levels of life expectancy of Taiwan (1906–2008). In 2007 the average life expectancy at birth of Taiwanese was 81.7 years for females and 75.6 years for males (The Human Mortality Database 2010). I will use data from annual life tables for the years of 1906–2008 produced by the Ministry of the Interior of Taiwan for Taiwan. Therefore, in this paper, I will not only review sex differences in mortality and longevity in Taiwan, but also estimate logistic models of mortality to decompose the trends and levels of life expectancy in Taiwan into three parts: juvenile, background, and senescent life expectancy, as proposed by Bongaarts in 2006 .
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