Table 4.

Trends in 25th and 75th percentiles of DOD, by residence and sex, India

	25th percentile of DOD				75th percentile of DOD
Year	Rural female	Rural male	Urban female	Urban male	Rural female	Rural male	Urban female	Urban male
1970–1974	54	54	60	57	76	75	80	78
1974–1978	55	54	60	57	76	75	80	77
1979–1983	58	57	63	59	79	76	81	79
1984–1988	59	57	62	59	79	77	82	78
1989–1993	61	58	65	60	79	78	82	79
1994–1998	62	58	65	61	81	78	84	80
1999–2003	63	58	66	61	82	79	84	82
2003–2007	64	60	68	62	83	80	85	82
Adj. R 2 *	0.9678	0.8694	0.9362	0.9414	0.9502	0.9451	0.9099	0.8485

Source: Author's calculation from RGI (25); DOD: distribution of age-at-death.

^*Adj. R² is based on 34 observation of percentile age-at-death between 1970 and 2007.