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I don't know why, but this information has come up a lot in conversation the past week for me. My family, which mostly live unhealthy sedentary lives, discussed
by mulletbum 9y ago
I don't know why, but this information has come up a lot in conversation the past week for me. My family, which mostly live unhealthy sedentary lives, discussed dying at 60. I was trying to make the point to them, if we gathered the statistic for people who live over 40, you would find that the average lifespan is much close to 80-90. The reason being is infant mortality and youthfulness. When you are young, you take many more risks (ie. driving fast in your car, drinking and drugging, etc.). There is a certain threshold age where you are just competing with Cancer and getting old, but the rate of death is much lower.
Now I should just do some real research to back up that for them with statistics.
- corpMaverick 9y agoThere are actuarial tables with expected life given your gender and current age that illustrate your point. https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html?bcsi-ac-a36e4bd543b0a21d=2733869A00000208a7pJU9GgK1giSKK0wjAkxGqsfEQGAAAACAIAAHIiLQEAjScABgAAAB5RBwA= https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html?bcsi-ac-a36e4bd...
- kasey_junk 9y agoWars have a statistically significant impact on life expectancy for young adults (males typically) as well. You can see it in the cohorts aged around massive conflicts.
- InitialLastName 9y agoThanks in part to globalization and free trade, most of the West haven't had a demographically significant war in ~70 years.
- mulletbum 9y agoHope we can keep it that way.
- kasey_junk 9y agoYep. Luckily. But a) the rest of the world has and b) 70 years is a single generation, thus impacting the cohort in the data.
- Retric 9y agoMaking it to 40 only increases a males life expectancy by around 2.25 years to 78.53 and that only jumps to 81.5 at 60. https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html?bcsi-ac-a36e4bd543b0a21d=2733869A00000208a7pJU9GgK1giSKK0wjAkxGqsfEQGAAAACAIAAHIiLQEAjScABgAAAB5RBwA= https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html?bcsi-ac-a36e4bd... At 70 you only have ok odds of hitting 80-90. However, even at 85 the odds of hitting 90 are only ~50/50. PS: Yes, there are plenty of people who will see 100+, but that's mostly because the initial pool is so large.