Figure 2From: A set of indicators for decomposing the secular increase of life expectancy Examples of conditional survival curves, where an increase of conditional life expectancy (for those persons reaching t 0 and dying before t Q , with t 0 = 50 and Q = 0.9) is due to rectangularization only (top panel), due to longevity increase only (middle panel), or due to both (bottom panel).Back to article page