Life table identity

Description of the life table identity (known as Carey's Equality) in which the fraction age x in a stationary population equals the fraction with x years to live. This is a part of the video mini-lecture series posted on YouTube by UC Davis Professor James R. Carey covering all sections of his coauthored book BIODEMOGRAPHY. The contents here are from Chapter 2. The full mini-lecture series is available at the UC Berkeley Population Sciences website: https://populationsciences.berkeley.edu/ceda/biodemography-book/ Chapter 1 Demography Basics; Chapter 2 Life Tables; Chapter 3 Mortality; Chapter 4 Reproduction; Chapter 5 Population I: Stable theory; Chapter 6 Population II: Stage models; Chapter 7 Population III: Extensions; Chapter 8 Human Demography; Chapter 9 Applied Demography I; Chapter 10 Applied Demography II; Chapter 11 Biodemography Shorts; Appendices Best practices BIODEMOGRAPHY: An Introduction to Concepts and Methods by James R. Carey & Deborah A. Roach. Copyright © 2020 by Princeton University Press. All rights reserved. This content may not be disseminated or reproduced without formal permission from the publisher.