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Jay Banks wrote:
>* In 1973, Prince Mohammed Ameen Khan, son of the Mir of Hunza, told Charles
>Hillinger of the Los Angeles Times that the average life expectancy of his
>people is about eighty-five years.
And just what sort of records do they keep? I bet that is his estimate of
the age that the old people around him die at. I doubt he calculated in the
deaths in infancy. Or the people that died of accidents along the way.
>* This is in puzzling contrast to the United States where, at that time,
>life expectancy was about seventy-one years. Even now, more than two decades
>later, life expectancy at birth in the U.S. is only about seventy-six.
Yes, life expectancy. That is from birth. Included in the average are those
that die young.
The numbers are not comparable.
Don.
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