John Wilmoth

Biographic Data

ID3878615
NAMEJohn Wilmoth
GIVEN NAMESJohn
FAMILY NAMEWilmoth
SIGNATUREWILMOTH J
AFFILIATIONSUnited Nations
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS18
AUTHOR COUNT5
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1989
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX2

  • Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations

    Open AccessJames J Feigenbaum, Timothy Larsen et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Economic History2017

    I was honored that Lee Alston asked me to be the convener for the Nevins Prize Competition this year. There were close to a dozen submissions spanning a

  • World population stabilization unlikely this century

    Open AccessPatrick Gerland, Adrian E Raftery et al.ARTICLEScience2014

    The United Nations (UN) recently released population projections based on data until 2012 and a Bayesian probabilistic methodology. Analysis of these data reveals that, contrary to previous literature, the world population is unlikely to stop growing this century. There is an 80% probability that world population, now 7.2 billion people, will increase to between 9.6 billion and 12.3 billion in 2100. This uncertainty is much smaller than the range…

  • Understanding Global Trends in Maternal Mortality

    Sarah Zureick-Brown, Sarah Zureick‐brown et al.ARTICLEInternational Perspectives on…2013

    CONTEXT: Despite the fact that most maternal deaths are preventable, maternal mortality remains high in many developing countries. Target A of Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5 calls for a three-quarters reduction in the maternal mortality ratio (MMR) between 1990 and 2015. METHODS: We derived estimates of maternal mortality for 172 countries over the period 1990-2008. Trends in maternal mortality were estimated either directly from vital regis…

  • A flexible two-dimensional mortality model for use in indirect estimation

    John R Wilmoth, John Wilmoth et al.ARTICLEPopulation Studies2012Cited by: 14References: 6

    Mortality estimates for many populations are derived using model life tables, which describe typical age patterns of human mortality. We propose a new system of model life tables as a means of improving the quality and transparency of such estimates. A flexible two-dimensional model was fitted to a collection of life tables from the Human Mortality Database. The model can be used to estimate full life tables given one or two pieces of information…

  • Quand certaines générations ont une mortalité différente de celle que l'on pourrait attendre

    Open AccessJohn R Wilmoth, John Wilmoth et al.ARTICLEPopulation1989Cited by: 4

    WiLMOTH John, Vallin Jacques et Caselli Graziella. - Quand certaines générations ont une mortalité différente de celle que l'on pourrait attendre. L'analyse de la matrice française de quotients de mortalité par année d'âge et année de calendrier de la période 1899-1981 à partir d'un modèle descriptif simple permet d'isoler une composante diagonale qui sans prétendre rendre compte de la totalité de l'influence de l'histoire propre de chaque généra…