Mortality [0] among Americans from ages 6 to 28 was about 1.1% in 2010. Take the sum of male and female living at age 28, divided by the sum of those living at

Mortality [0] among Americans from ages 6 to 28 was about 1.1% in 2010. Take the sum of male and female living at age 28, divided by the sum of those living at age 6. That's about 99%. The change in the number of survivors is the mortality rate. That would be about 9 individuals in the sample size of 790. During the period of the study mortality would have been a little higher, since life expectancy has increased about 6 years since the early 1980s. But the study counted 26 deaths (that they knew about). Being poor's a killer. [0] http://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html http://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html