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Conservation of mortality and assumption integrity

8 December 2021

Conservation of mortality, also known as “preservation of deaths” or “conservation of total deaths,” is the modeling principle an actuary may use to ensure consistency between assumptions of the total mortality of a population, and the assumptions of mortality among population subsets. This principle is an important consideration to maintaining assumption integrity.

This article was originally published by the Society of Actuaries.

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