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an actuarial table indicating life expectancy and death frequency for a given age, occupation, etc 死亡率表; 用来表示在特定年龄、职业等情况下的预期寿命和死亡频率的保险统计用表格
[insurance]
Bankinghas a long historyofborrowing ideasfromscience - astronomerEdmund Halley was constructingmortalitytablesfor the life assurance industry back in the17thCentury.
Even though, the executors knew at the time of filing exactly how much had gone to charity, they were still required to use standard mortalitytables to value its interest.
On August 1st the actuaries' trade body adopted a new set of mortalitytables drawing on data collected between 1999 and 2002, It forecasts yet another increase in life expectancy.