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No, you're saying two different things....


"In fact if you tell me it is impossible to decrease infant mortality without increasing life expectancy I would likely agree."

I would agree with this. This is increasing years onto the lives of a set number of people, it would tend to increase the average.

"It's just that decreased infant mortality ITSELF doesn't affect life expectancy."

Yes, yes it does. That's actually what you said above, infant mortality itself *does* affect life expectancy. But I do agree with you in that it may not be the true mathematical cause and effect, because it may not be the dominant factor in a change in life expectancy. There was a slight downturn last year in life expectancy, probably because other negative factors absorbed gains from infant mortality decreases.

(In response to this post by RTFC)

Posted: 02/22/2018 at 2:13PM



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