Mortality and Health Developments in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Montenegro

The scope of this paper is to analyse the mortality transitionMortality transition in two newly established countries that emerged after Yugoslavia’s dissolution, i.e., Bosnia and Herzegovina and MontenegroMontenegro. Data come from the World Population Prospects and are used to allow the calculation of several mortality indicators. Therefore measures of the mean duration of life, probabilities of deathDeath, and the Arriaga method describe major aspects of the mortality transitionMortality transition in the two countries. Additionally, measures relating the old age heap and the rectangularisation process occurring on the survival curves give additional information on the mortalityMortality regimes in the two genders and countries and their differentiation over time. Results indicate that significant deviations, convergences and divergences occurred between the two countries per gender. Mortality transitionMortality transition is evident in both of them, but it takes place with different rhythms, timetables and general characteristics, described in detail in this paper.