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To: Sr K who wrote (403542)	1/12/2011 12:00:25 AM
From: LindyBill	2 Recommendations Respond to of 794046

a reduction of infant mortality? Our infant mortality figures are very deceptive because we count as a deaths the demise of premies. The rest of the world doesn't. Our mortality figures also cannot be compared to other countries because of our tremendous racial mixture compared to them.

To: Sr K who wrote (403542)	1/12/2011 10:43:26 AM
From: TimF	Respond to of 794046

Hasn't most of the improvement been from how and where babies are born and a reduction of infant mortality? A lot of the improvment has been, but people who reach retirement age have also had their remaining life expectancy go up. See the chart for "Average Remaining Life Expectancy for Those Surviving to Age 65" at this link ssa.gov It doesn't have the older data for the time period I posted about before but it shows that from 1940 to 1990 the estimated average remaining years increased by 2.6 for men and 4.9 for women. Also see "Number of Americans Age 65 or Older" and see how its pretty consistently gone up faster than the population (including for the time period leading up to the creation of Social Security see demographia.com for the US population changes)