INCREASED LONGEVITY AND THE CHALLENGE OF DETERMINING qx AT EXTREME AGES—PART 2

MR. WOLFF: I'll answer the other two questions and start with the last one regarding different mortality in East Germany and West Germany. That's a very good point. You are right, there are significant differences: The mortality rates in East Germany were higher than in West Germany, and after reunification the mortality improvement was higher in East Germany than in West Germany. We were aware of this. Therefore we used only West German mortality data for deriving the population mortality trend. We think this data was not affected by the