Age- and cause-specific components of recent life expectancy improvements in Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia

Lotrič Dolinar, Aleša (author), Čipin, Ivan (author), Međimurec, Andreja (author), Stojilković Gnjatović, Jelena (author), Sambt, Jože (author)

All ex-Yugoslav countries experienced improvements in life expectancy during the last few decades. This study describes and compares recent life expectancy trends in Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia. What age groups and what causes of death account for the largest mortality declines? Have the three countries joined the cardiovascular revolution? Do patterns differ between countries? And, is there room for further improvements? We use life tables and decomposition methods to address these questions. Our key findings are: 1) lower mortality from circulatory diseases at older ages contributed most to life expectancy growth 2001– 2017 for both sexes in all three countries; 2) despite this common pattern, life expectancy in Slovenia grew fastest and the gap between countries increased; 3) under the Slovenian age- -specific cardiovascular mortality schedule, Croatia added 1.79 years to both female and male life expectancies, while Serbia added 3.97 and 3.26 to female and male life expectancies.

• Language: English
• Keywords: demography, ageing, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: EF - School of Economics and Business
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2020
• Number of pages: Str. 175-193
• Numbering: Vol. 29, iss. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-117709
• UDC: 314
• ISSN on article: 1330-0288
• DOI: 10.5559/di.29.2.01
• COBISS.SI-ID: 20823299
• Publication date in RUL: 22.07.2020

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Društvena istraživanja. časopis za opća društvena pitanja
• Shortened title: Druš. istraž.
• Publisher: Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar
• ISSN: 1330-0288
• COBISS.SI-ID: 4174601

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• Licensing start date: 22.07.2020

Secondary language

• Language: Croatian
• Title: Odnos između neformalne mreže dijeljenja znanja i individualnog učenja u organizacijama : koliko je važno strukturiranje aktivnosti?

Abstract

Očekivano trajanje života raste u svim zemljama bivše Jugoslavije. Ovaj rad opisuje i uspoređuje recentne trendove u očekivanom trajanju života u Hrvatskoj, Srbiji i Sloveniji. Što je potaknulo najnoviji porast? U kojim se dobnim skupinama I kod kojih se uzroka smrti bilježi najveći pad mortaliteta? Jesu li se tri zemlje pridružile kardiovaskularnoj revoluciji? Postoje li razlike među zemljama? Ima li prostora za daljnji napredak? Kako bismo ponudili odgovore na ova pitanja, u istraživanju upotrebljavamo tablice doživljenja i dekompozicijsku analizu. Ključni su nalazi: 1) pad smrtnosti od bolesti cirkulacijskoga sustava među starijim stanovništvom najviše je pridonio rastu očekivanoga trajanja života 2001–2017 kod obaju spolova u svim trima zemljama, 2) očekivano trajanje života u Sloveniji raslo je najbrže i povećao se jaz među zemljama, 3) pod slovenskim stopama kardiovaskularnoga mortaliteta prema dobi, u Hrvatskoj bi očekivano trajanje života poraslo za 1,79 godina i kod žena i kod muškaraca, a u Srbiji za 3,97 godina kod žena, odnosno za 3,26 godina kod muškaraca.

• Keywords: demografija, staranje, Slovenija, Hrvaška, Srbija