This study attempts to analyze mortality at older ages(age 65 and over) during the last decade.
the major findings are as follows :
1. In 19983-1993. the proportions of all deaths for females(55.01-67.61%) is considerably greater than for males(38.10-4276%) that occur at age 65 and over indicates that over two-thirds of all female deaths in 1993.
During the same periods, declines in both sexes death rates continued at age 65-79 particularly noteworthy for males than females.
In sex-mortality ratios. the highest ratios of excess male mortality are found for up to age 80 and over, which reflects the relatively low female death rates at older ages.
Caus-specific death rates from the five selected caused are generally higher for males and females during the same period. particularly the probability is higher for malignant neoplasms(11.65-19.98 for male and 3.81-8.17 for female in 1993) and cerebrovascular diseases(6.48-38.57 for male and 3.65-25.71 for female in 1993).
2. In males. the probabilities eventually dying of each cause during the 1983-1991 mark the highest at the oldest age group after 65 years, in case of cerebrovascular diseases(16.67-15.26%) followed by malignant neoplasms(16.66-8.13%) and heart diseases(11.88-9.71%) while in females in case of cerebrovasucular diseases(18-12-15.17%) marks the highest too heart diseases(14.07-12.78%), malignant neoplasms(8.71-4.54%), hypertensive diseases(6.83-6.41) in order. in both sexes cerebrovascular diseases and hear diseases at age 80 and over seem to be more important than its in other of the specific cause of death.
3. The mortality change at the age 65 and over has the largest impact on the life expectancy at birth during the 1983-1991, contributed in both sexes with 1.1652(30.54%) and 0.8078(23656%) years respectively the decline in mortality from the hypertensive diseases tended to reduce life expectancy a change in the positive direction added 0.0907 and 0.0724 years in both sexes however while an increase in mortality from diseases of the malignant neoplasms tended to reduce life expectancy, a change in the opposite direction added -0.7641 and -0.3816 years for males and females respectively.
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