Resumen

ZEPEDA ORTEGA, Ana  y  MONTEVERDE, Laura Malena. Compression of mortality in Chile: 1969-2002. Pap. poblac [online]. 2016, vol.22, n.87, pp.265-291. ISSN 2448-7147.

Fries in his compression of morbidity theory proposed that decline in premature deaths and postponement of chronic illness leads to a more rectangle shaped survival curve, concentrating diseases and death at the end of life (mortality compression). This study results show signs of mortality compression with a gradual concentration of deaths around the modal age and a rectangularization of the survival curve in Chileans between 1969-2002. However, mortality is not only being compressed but also moving towards the right since modal age of death has increased, meaning that "most common length of life" in Chile is increasing.

Palabras llave : Compression of mortality; Chile; rectangularization of the survival curve; length of life; death modal age.

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