{"id":49523,"date":"2025-06-19T18:02:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T18:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=49523"},"modified":"2025-06-19T18:02:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T18:02:33","slug":"demographics-actuarial-tables-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/demographics-actuarial-tables-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Demographics: actuarial tables, part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about demographics of the US: the tutor mentions a resource.<\/h2>\n<p>\nReading in the news about seemingly healthy people dying at surprisingly young ages, I came to wonder: what percent of people in the US live to age 56?<\/p>\n<p>\nInterestingly, there is a table for that exact question: see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssa.gov\/oact\/STATS\/table4c6.html\">here<\/a>. Column b represents how many people remain alive at a given age out of 100,000 originally born. Note there is a separate column b for females and for males.<\/p>\n<p>\nTherefore, one can realize from that table that, among males in the US, 86,789 will reach age 56 out of 100,000 born: approximately 86.8%.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting, eh?<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about demographics of the US: the tutor mentions a resource. Reading in the news about seemingly healthy people dying at surprisingly young ages, I came to wonder: what percent of people in the US live to age 56? Interestingly, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/demographics-actuarial-tables-part-1\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Demographics: actuarial tables, part 1<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-demographics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49523"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49526,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49523\/revisions\/49526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}