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Re:Years You Have Left to Live, Probably by cosmorocket on Thursday September 24, 2015 @06:31AM (#10270835)
Last autumn I was involved in working on a similar web app [1] for WorldBank which consumed its data sources.

I think it should be more accurate as they at WorldBank collect the data from multiple sources and process it in a scientifically precise manner. You can enter country you live in, which can make a dramatic difference.

[1] http://population.io

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Re:Years You Have Left to Live, Probably by shpx on Thursday September 24, 2015 @07:15AM (#10270970)
Being told that ~2080 is the last year I might see is strangely more tangible than an age.
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Re:Years You Have Left to Live, Probably by versteegen on Thursday September 24, 2015 @08:45AM (#10271258)
Very nice website.

Google also a site where you can graph the WorldBank data in a zillion ways; I'm shocked that I didn't know about it earlier:

https://www.google.co.nz/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9...

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Re:Years You Have Left to Live, Probably by lucaspiller on Thursday September 24, 2015 @03:16PM (#10273925)
Hearing I'm older than 46% of the worlds population is pretty interesting. I'm only 27.
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Re:Years You Have Left to Live, Probably by cosmorocket on Friday September 25, 2015 @02:31AM (#10276663)
If you have a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_median_ag..., you will see that the total world age median is 29.7.
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