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No. It is not bimodal except for a tiny bump in infancy related to birth defects http://www.science-of-aging.com/timelines/images/gompertz-mortality-curve.jpg

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What you say is consistent with my previous impression, but this data looks very suspect. It's smoothed in a suspicious way, with for instance at least 3 data points in the "75-84" bin. And why would the bins need to be so coarse anyway with such a large sample size?

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It was the first google hit for gompertz mortality curve. Here is another. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Peter-Lenart/publication/334604816/figure/fig1/AS:783401053327362@1563788774854/Gompertz-and-Gompertz-Makeham-models-provide-similar-fit-A-Comparison-between-curve.ppm

These are all public data. You can pull it and make whatever bin sizes you want.

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