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life expectancy |
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life expectancy, n the probable number of years a person will live after a given age, as determined by the mortality rate in a specific geographic area. This number may be individually qualified by the person's condition, race, sex, age, and other demographic factors. |
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5 DEATHS for every 100 million vehicle miles TOTAL 42, 643 * * FIGURE FOR 2003 LIVING LONGER Life expectancy at birth 1915 55 YEARS 1967 71 YEARS 2006 78 YEARS AN AGING NATION Percentage of population age 65 or older 1915 5% 1967 10% 2006 12% THE MILITARY Active-duty military personnel 1915 174,000 1967 3. The impact of AIDS on adult mortality since 1999 has led to a decline in life expectancy at birth in 23 African countries, according to the "2004 Report on the global AIDS epidemic", published by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). What unites these countries' techniques is that they all project "further improvements in life expectancy at birth but at a lower rate than that observed during the 1970s and 1980s" (Cruijsen and Eding 2001, 243). |
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