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That's amazing, if 5% of the entire world chose to die each year the average human lifespan would be 20

• quantified 4y ago
  Depends on which 5%...
  • xvedejas 4y ago
    Even if it's the oldest 5%, _eventually_ you'd reach even lower than 20 because the population isn't growing at anything near a rate of 5% per year, and so you'd run out of people that old quickly. You'd see an exponential decline in the Canadian population, halving every 14 years. A -5% rate per year is an extremely unlikely thing to keep up for long
    • flanflan 4y ago
      Again this is 5% _of deaths_ not 5% of the population. So it's roughly in line with the number of people who die from random accidents in a given year.
• eloff 4y ago
  It’s 5% of deaths, not of the population.