Yes. A more informative statistic might be life expectancy at age 5. However, there are still parts of the world where a man in his early 40s can expect to be addressed as 'grandfather'. I know from experience...
-- Cheers, Bob > > But it's just a somewhat amusing piece of statistics, anyhow... > > On a related note, another common misconception is that > nobody did live to the age of 65 a few hundred years ago, > because the life expectancy at birth was 40 or whatever. The > truth is that the main contribution to the lower life > expectancy was a very high child mortality rate - the chance > of getting old *if you survived childhood* wasn't necessarily > that much lower than today. > > - Toralf
