U.S. Population Research

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U.S. Population Research

The Society of Actuaries Research Institute has sponsored a program of research that utilizes U.S. Population Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to produce studies, tools and articles that may be of interest to its members and the public.

Check out the Latest

Obesity and Its Growing Impact on Future Mortality: A Collection of Essays

U.S. Historical Population Mortality Rates 2000-2023

U.S. Population Mortality Observations – Updated with 2022 Experience

Research Reports

Impactful Research

Mortality and Race and Ethnicity in the United States
This survey of existing literature can be used by actuaries as an aid in modeling possible mortality differentials when considering full U.S. population analysis.

Tools You Can Use

SOA Research Institute on GitHub

SOA Research Institute’s GitHub overview page to access repositories for code from research projects. The SOA’s general GitHub page is also available.