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To be 100 years or older you would have been born in 1926 or before. Meaning you turned 18 in 1944 or before. Maybe something happened in Japan that killed of a
by consonaut 14d ago
To be 100 years or older you would have been born in 1926 or before. Meaning you turned 18 in 1944 or before. Maybe something happened in Japan that killed of a large percentage of young adult males around that time?
- globular-toast 14d agoWell, exactly, but this lends credence to the numbers being somewhat accurate. If there were almost as many male centenarians then it could probably be attributed to bad record keeping.
- AntiqueFig 14d agoAlso women tends to live longer, thus even if the records were for example 5 years wrong, there would still be more 95 years old women than men.