what is an ultimate mortality table 
an ultimate mortality table lists the percentage of life insurance purchasers expected to still be alive at each given age beginning with age 0 which represents 100 of the population up to age 120 typically the data is based on a population of life insurance policyholders from either a particular insurance company or group of them rather than the entire u s population understanding an ultimate mortality tablemortality tables are essentially grids of numbers that show the probability of death for members of a given population within a defined period of time based on a large number of factored variables 