Abstract: Mortality forecasting is the basis of population forecasting. In recent years, new progress has been made in mortality models. From the earliest static mortality models, mortality models have been developed into dynamic forecasting models including time terms, such as Lee-Carter model family, CBD model family and so on. This paper reviews and sorts out relevant literature on mortality forecasting models. With the development of dynamic models, some scholars have developed a series of mortality improvement models based on the level of mortality improvement. In addition, with the progress of mortality research, multi-population mortality modeling attracted the attention of researchers, and the multi-population forecasting models have been constantly developed and improved, which play an important role in the mortality forecasting. With the continuous enrichment and innovation of mortality model research methods, new statistical methods (such as machine learning) have been applied in mortality modeling, and the accuracy of fitting and prediction has been improved. In addition to the extension of classical modeling methods, issues such as small-area population or missing data of the population, the elderly population, the related population mortality modeling are still worth studying.