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Re:USA Facts – Federal, state, and local data from governmen... by phonon on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @12:37PM (#14140274)
They probably were using death rates and multiplying by population (which gets readjusted every census.) Definitely a FIXME.
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Re:USA Facts – Federal, state, and local data from governmen... by pwaivers on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @02:15PM (#14141350)
This would not result in the spikes that we are seeing. If it was a readjusted population, then the number would rise sharply every tens years and stay up.
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