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Show MORTALITY OF HUMAN rtACE. Thirty -three million people die annually. This is equal to 90,410 deaths per day, 3,767 per hour, and G2 per minute, or one in less than every sceond of time. One-fourth of all the people born into the world die before arriving at the age of seven years; one-half die before reaching the age of seventeen. The average duration of human life is about thirty-eight years. Of 10,000 persons one attains the age of one hundred years, one out of 500 reaches the age of ninety years, and out of 100 only one -will live to be sixty. |