Table 2.

Correlation coefficients, age-specific death rates vs. probability of dying under age 5 (both in logarithmic scale), Human Mortality Database life tables (n = 719)

Age group	Female	Male
0	0.983	0.984
1–4	0.969	0.963
5–9	0.944	0.935
10–14	0.944	0.940
15–19	0.936	0.900
20–24	0.939	0.768
25–29	0.949	0.829
30–34	0.958	0.871
35–39	0.961	0.883
40–44	0.962	0.874
45–49	0.947	0.845
50–54	0.942	0.814
55–59	0.930	0.774
60–64	0.942	0.775
65–69	0.928	0.772
70–74	0.912	0.798
75–79	0.873	0.779
80–84	0.812	0.747
85–89	0.713	0.658
90–94	0.565	0.473
95–99	0.378	0.363
100–104	0.155	0.218
105–109	−0.045	0.093
110+	−0.174	0.004

Note: Table shows correlations between log(_nm_x) and log(₅q₀).

Source: Data as summarized in Table 1a