Fast Facts: Oct. 19
October 19, 2010
- In the next 60 seconds, 101 people will die and 261 babies will be born.
- One in five people alive today is Chinese.
- The country with the longest life expectancy is Japan. The average is 78 years for men and 85 years for women.
- Your odds of living to age 116: one in 2 billion.
- Of all the people who have ever lived, only 5-10 percent are alive today.
- By the time you reach age 60, your eyes will have been exposed to more light than would be released by detonating a nuclear bomb.
- Baby boomers now say that “”old age”” begins at 79.
