Comments on: How do longevity (life expectancy at birth) measured? http://www.naturalelixirs.com/how-do-longevity-life-expectancy-at-birth-measured Your Natural Health Guide Sun, 14 Nov 2010 16:01:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: KevinStud99 http://www.naturalelixirs.com/how-do-longevity-life-expectancy-at-birth-measured#comment-147 KevinStud99 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:26:48 +0000 http://www.naturalelixirs.com/how-do-longevity-life-expectancy-at-birth-measured#comment-147 You simply take all the people that died in a period (or a representative sample), note their ages at death, and find the average age. That is the current life expectancy. So yes it does factor in the ages of babies and children and young people that die, as part of the average. You simply take all the people that died in a period (or a representative sample), note their ages at death, and find the average age. That is the current life expectancy.

So yes it does factor in the ages of babies and children and young people that die, as part of the average.

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