All ex-Yugoslav countries experienced improvements in life expectancy during the last few decades. This study describes and compares recent life expectancy trends in Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia. What age groups and what causes of death account for the largest mortality declines? Have the three countries joined the cardiovascular revolution? Do patterns differ between countries? And, is there room for further improvements? We use life tables and decomposition methods to address these questions. Our key findings are: 1) lower mortality from circulatory diseases at older ages contributed most to life expectancy growth 2001– 2017 for both sexes in all three countries; 2) despite this common pattern, life expectancy in Slovenia grew fastest and the gap between countries increased; 3) under the Slovenian age- -specific cardiovascular mortality schedule, Croatia added 1.79 years to both female and male life expectancies, while Serbia added 3.97 and 3.26 to female and male life expectancies.

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克罗地亚，塞尔维亚和斯洛文尼亚最近预期寿命的特定年龄和特定原因组成部分

在过去的几十年中，所有前南斯拉夫国家的预期寿命都有所提高。这项研究描述并比较了克罗地亚，塞尔维亚和斯洛文尼亚的近期预期寿命趋势。哪个年龄段和哪些死亡原因造成最大的死亡率下降？这三个国家是否参加了心血管革命？国家之间的模式是否不同？而且，还有进一步改进的空间吗？我们使用生命表和分解方法来解决这些问题。我们的主要发现是：1）在这三个国家中，男女两性的平均寿命的降低对2001-2017年预期寿命的增长贡献最大；2）尽管有这种共同的模式，但斯洛文尼亚的预期寿命增长最快，国家之间的差距也在扩大；3）根据斯洛文尼亚特定年龄段的心血管疾病死亡率表，