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How do they get to that quantity? I assumes is world-wide
by truth_sentinell 10y ago
How do they get to that quantity? I assumes is world-wide
- billforsternz 10y ago7000 million people in the world. 30 million seconds in a year. 3000 million seconds in a lifetime. So approx 2 people die a second.
- dx034 10y agoLife expectancy is way below 100 years currently. Even for people born now, it's probably only 100 years in some developed countries.
- billforsternz 10y agoIt's very much a back of the envelope calculation, everything is very approximate, 100 years makes for an easier calculation.
- truth_sentinell 10y agoOk, so where's the part where you get that 2 from?
- billforsternz 10y agoWell 7/3 = 2 (more or less - the whole calculation is very approximate obviously). The basic idea is if you have 100 people (of a broad spectrum of ages) you'd expect about 1 of them to die each year.
- billforsternz 10y agoI should have made it clearer that this is just a sanity check. I find the rough approximation 30 million seconds in a year often comes in handy for back of the envelopers like this. 10 seconds thought was all it took to check that 2 people dying every second is at the very least reasonable.