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I'm not justifying their "boo science, yay debauchery" line of thinking but let us look at the numbers (because I'm curious): This is for the US, from CDC data
by ryanmercer 7y ago
I'm not justifying their "boo science, yay debauchery" line of thinking but let us look at the numbers (because I'm curious):
This is for the US, from CDC data, so probably 30-something percent depending on how many were between 60 and 64:
>Totals For 2010: 2,468,435 people of all ages died. About 11.9% aged 25 to 54. 24.5% aged 25 to 64
https://modlinlegal.com/blog/maybe-i-just-won-t-plan/90-the-odds-of-living-to-65.html https://modlinlegal.com/blog/maybe-i-just-won-t-plan/90-the-...
And this https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TO65.MA.ZS https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TO65.MA.ZS
shows numbers kinda all over the place depending on country, depending on where the person is from it may very well be that the majority die before 60-65 in their country.
Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, both Congo, Cote d'Ivorie, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Lesotho, Malawi, Mongolia, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe all appear to be under 60% chance (one or two may be at or above, I made the list quickly) of making it to 65 if I'm reading that table correctly.
So, that's about 679 million people using 2017 numbers found via Google so not even 9% of the global population but still, that's roughly a 1 in 12 chance they are from a country where death before 65 is a thing for 40-60% of the population.
Also TIL Nigeria has 191 million people!!! Wow, I would have never come close to that if told to guess.