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Re:The decline in U.S. life expectancy is unlike anything se... by nraynaud on Thursday October 24, 2019 @10:13AM (#21344857)
it's when they recompute the life expectancy at birth from the life expectancy at the current time that the skew arises.
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Re:The decline in U.S. life expectancy is unlike anything se... by Arnt on Friday October 25, 2019 @02:00AM (#21352289)
Maybe you're right, but if so, don't you think you'd be more persuasive with a couple of paragraphs of argument than with a single-sentence assertion?
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Re:The decline in U.S. life expectancy is unlike anything se... by nraynaud on Friday October 25, 2019 @08:53AM (#21354456)
https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/what-does-life-expectan....
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