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You did the math incorrectly. You can't add up the total deaths and then divide by one of them to get your chance of dying in that age group. The populations o
by ageitgey 6y ago
You did the math incorrectly. You can't add up the total deaths and then divide by one of them to get your chance of dying in that age group.
The populations of those are ranges are different sizes. There are many fewer people alive who are in the 85+ group than there are in the 15-44 group. So if you work that out based on the relative population sizes, you'll get a much lower death rate for the under 40 group.
- LandR 6y agoExactly, for example for cases under 40 y/o: South Korea: 5539, deaths = 5 = 0.09% Switzerland: 8874, deaths = 5 = 0.05% Italy: 37139, deaths = 84 = 0.22% Netherlands: 8207, deaths = 14 = 0.17% This is from wikipedia for the respective countries, some countries figures are more up to date than others.