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To: combjelly who wrote (217655)2/7/2005 12:14:30 AM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1572963
 
Sure. But my original statement had to do with "about the same percentage of the population". You are arguing about something else entirely.

The "Percentage of Population Surviving from Age 21 to Age 65" data pretty much covers that.

If an increasing percentage of people who make it to 21 also make it to 65, and the average lifespan at 65 also increases it is pretty much a lock that the percentage of population that lives past 70 increases.

Added to that you have
"The fastest growing group in the United States is people over the age of 85. Experts estimate that by the year 2040, we will have over a million people in the United States over the age of 100."

Also your statement was - "What we have now is about the same percentage of the population is living beyond 70 or so as has always. "

"Always" includes before civilization when people who lived beyond 70 were apparently few and far between.

Tim
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