Definition of "Mortality savings"

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Difference between the actual mortality experience and the expected mortality experience. In statistical terms, this is known as the deviation of the actual (X) from the expected (X). The mortality table is conservative by nature in that the table assumes more people will die than is the case. When fewer people die than was assumed by the table, the savings results.

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