Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1886 — Statistics of Human Life. [ARTICLE]

Statistics of Human Life.

The duration of a generation is the average length of life for man. That is, though, of a million of human beings born in a generation, some will die in infancy and some will live to old age, the average life for the entire number will J)e about thirty-three years. This is arrived at by averaging the ages of all persons, old and young, dying within a given term of years. Different localities, different periods, will alter the result, but the average for the race in civilized countries is always approximately the same. The average age of population is a different thing. This is the average age of all persons living at one time, ascertained by summing the ages of persons of different age as given by a census of population, and dividing this by the sum total of the population. The difference in average above quoted, between the United States and Belgium, shows a larger proportion of young people in the former country.— /filer Ocean. , TBebe is a family in Qlascock Ga., consisting of a man, hia wife, and three children, whose aggregate weight is less than 200 pounds.