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Forecasts of mortality provide vital information about future populations, with implications for pension and health-care policy as well as for decisions made by private companies about life insurance and annuity pricing. Stochastic mortality forecasts allow the uncertainty in mortality predictions to be taken into consideration when making policy decisions and setting product prices. Longer lifespans imply that forecasts of mortality at ages 90 and above will become more important in such calculations. This paper presents a Bayesian approach to the forecasting of mortality that jointly estimates a Generalised Additive Model (GAM) for mortality for the majority of the age-range and a parametric model for older ages where the data are sparser. The GAM allows smooth components to be estimated for age, cohort and age-specific improvement rates, together with a non-smoothed period effect. Forecasts for the United Kingdom are produced using data from the Human Mortality Database spanning the period 1961-2013. A metric that approximates predictive accuracy under Leave-One-Out cross-validation is used to estimate weights for the `stacking of forecasts with different points of transition between the GAM and parametric elements. Mortality for males and females are estimated separately at first, but a joint model allows the asymptotic limit of mortality at old ages to be shared between sexes, and furthermore provides for forecasts accounting for correlations in period innovations. The joint and single sex model forecasts estimated using data from 1961-2003 are compared against observed data from 2004-2013 to facilitate model assessment.
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