Sep 28, 2018
What Kills Us
Mortality rates matter
I have often been intrigued by how people are astounded by the idea that average life expectancy is now 80 or whatever and it used to be 60.
That has a huge effect on public policy and things like government pensions and healthcare. The question is, as always, “Does an average mean anything?”
Mortality then and now.
If we go back 150 years or so, we find life expectancy to…
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