Today is my 48th birthday. Unlike some people who would spend such an occasion waxing philosophical about the grand journey of life, I’m more of a “facts & figures” sort of guy. I will, therefore, put this kilometerstone into perspective by use of the following statistics, courtesy of the Social Security Actuarial Tables:
As a male living in the United States turning 48, my chances of dying before my next birthday are 0.4% (or, to make it sound more positive, I have a 99.6% chance of living until age 49).
In a randomly chosen group of 100,000 people born at or near the same time I was, roughly 92,958 of them are still alive. In other words, I’ve outlived about 7.1% of my peers so far.
Statistically, I can expect to live another 30.49 years.
I’ve been around for 17,532 days. That’s equivalent to 2,504 weeks, 420,768 hours, 25,246,080 minutes or 1,514,764,800 seconds.
No wonder I feel old!
Just curious, do you know why you're getting soooo many Chinese comments?
ReplyDeleteThe Chinese just love me?
ReplyDeleteNo, actually from what I've been reading there are some Chinese spammers doing this to a lot of blogger accounts. Kinda annoying. (Or, in Chinese, "Ah-noh-ying".)