I was reading this article today about a Dominican lady celebrating her 105th birthday:
http://www.elcaribecdn.com/articulo...d=0C641B08B7374048B70ED39A448256BF&Seccion=63 (hope this link's OK )
It states that her father lived till the age of 118 and her mother 98!
After reading I was curious as to the life expectancy of males/females in the DR and so I did a little Googling to come up with figures around 71/75 respectively.
Now do you think that this woman and her mother and father are just exceptions from the average or is it a case of the stats being somewhat unreliable? Many of the population stats on the DR are understated due to the number of births which go unregistered, and I was wondering whether it's a similar case with the filing of deaths?
How reliable do you think the life expectancy stats are?
To be able to take care of yourself and even apply your own make up at 105.....now that's impressive! :classic: Happy Birthday Petronila!
Daydream
http://www.elcaribecdn.com/articulo...d=0C641B08B7374048B70ED39A448256BF&Seccion=63 (hope this link's OK )
It states that her father lived till the age of 118 and her mother 98!
After reading I was curious as to the life expectancy of males/females in the DR and so I did a little Googling to come up with figures around 71/75 respectively.
Now do you think that this woman and her mother and father are just exceptions from the average or is it a case of the stats being somewhat unreliable? Many of the population stats on the DR are understated due to the number of births which go unregistered, and I was wondering whether it's a similar case with the filing of deaths?
How reliable do you think the life expectancy stats are?
To be able to take care of yourself and even apply your own make up at 105.....now that's impressive! :classic: Happy Birthday Petronila!
Daydream