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Re:Is Life Expectancy Finally Topping Out? by matt4077 on Thursday April 25, 2019 @07:14AM (#19746895)
That’s a common “fun fact” but it’s been so overdone people are probably now erring more to the other side. Here’s a graph: http://www.roperld.com/science/graphics/LifeExpectancyForDif...

As an example, in the 20th Century, life expectancy at birth rose from about 40 to 77 years. But for 20 year olds, it also went from 34 to 59 additional years.

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Re:Is Life Expectancy Finally Topping Out? by Retric on Thursday April 25, 2019 @07:57AM (#19747106)
That does not seem to be accurate for the US from 1900 looking at a life table. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/lifetables/life1890-1910.pdf

Page 52 Men in 1900 life expectancy at 20: 42.48

Page 54 Women in 1900 life expectancy at 20: 43.6

The Social Security life table for 2016 lists 56.91 years at 20 a gain of ~13.9 years in the last 116. https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html

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Re:Is Life Expectancy Finally Topping Out? by raverbashing on Thursday April 25, 2019 @08:33AM (#19747362)
56 looks like a small number compared with other developed countries
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Re:Is Life Expectancy Finally Topping Out? by tgb on Thursday April 25, 2019 @09:09AM (#19747658)
It's additional years of life - so 76 total.
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