countries that are further along in their demographic transition chile and cuba have geriatric death rates higher than the regional average in fact a comparison between the situations in haiti and cuba shows that haiti will take until to record the death rates in the population aged and over that cuba had recorded six decades earlier cuba has an older age structure than haiti and therefore its population is more likely to die over age figure iv which shows the proportion of deaths from chronic and degenerative diseases as a function of average population age shows those countries further along in the demographic transition argentina barbados chile cuba and uruguay at one extreme with more than of deaths from those causes and at the other those countries about to move into full demographic transition with an ageing process that is still incipient guatemala haiti honduras and nicaragua among others this may be illustrated by comparing life expectancy at birth and healthadjusted life expectancy hale at birth