Longevity and our 'missing' 90-year-olds

[joebloggs]

Buried in the data of the 2011 Census is the discovery that there are now fewer elderly people than was previously estimated. The census data showed that there were 30,000 fewer people aged in their 90s than expected. This represents a reduction of around 15%, so what has happened to our 'missing' 90-year-olds?

read more here ... http://www.theactuary.com/features/2012/11/longevity-and-our-missing-90-year-olds/

[Arthur Little]

:cwm24: ... where's old 'Johnnie', our missing "jolly journalist extraordinaire", I wonder? :icon_rolleyes: Surely he can't be far off 90 by now! :NoNo:

[Terpe]

Interesting link that :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[joebloggs]

I've seen somewhere else they think it might be down to many of them smoking in the 40/50s when it was more fashionable and also they were more likely to have done manual work.