What is the percentage of people who die from old age?
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people dont die form "old age" theres always a body part/organ/function that goes causing death.
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ask your local council cos ime sure its all included on the census that they carry out although that can never be totally accurate because people are born and die every day but will probo give you a pretty good estimate
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Without injury or sickness there is nothing left to kill us.  What causes death by old age is a deterioration of the immune system (i.e. your thyroid is largest during puberty and continues to shrink for the rest of one's life).  All forms of death fall under one category or the other, this is as inescapable as death itself.\n\nJust for trivia's sake, I once read a _Ripley's Believe It or Not_ book which mentioned a man who was never diagnosed of any illness until the age of 114.  He ended up dying from it, the first disease he was known to have had.
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I'll stay strictly biochemical, and not consider teliology or evolution, since the previous answerer addressed some of this.\nThough there is a hypothesis that aging and death occur because of damage, oxidative stress, etc, there is actually very little data to support this-in fact, the information we have explicitly argue against this.  Rats, mice, etc, live only 2-3 years, and show cellular degeneration, etc, very similar to that seen in aged humans, and yet are not exposed to greater levels of oxidative stress, or indeed extra stress of any kind, than humans.  If it truly were a matter of stress exclusively, the range of survival times would tend to be much broader than what we see- IN other words, some humans would die of old age at 5 or 6 years old, and some would live to 200-300 years old.  Stress, oxidation, poor diet can indeed influence the age at which we die, but they are not the primary determinants... it is apparent that this is a genetically controlled phenomenon, and that it occured soon after the rise of multi-cellular organisms, and that it varies greatly between species.  There have been some senescence genes found, that are specifically turned on that seem to guide cellular damage-however, it seems as if the greatest portion of the aging process, developmentally, is caused not be production of completely new proteins which end up killing us, but by variations of levels of proteins already expressed- For instance, there are significant decreases throughout life in a number of hormones, including androgens (in men) growth hormone, insulin-like growth factors, various neurotrophic factors, etc- and a concomittant rise in others, especially pro-inflammatory hormones, such as TNFa and certain interleukins.  All of this is genetically and developmentally regulated to a fairly specific time, and is slightly variable depending upon diet, exercise, etc- It is similar to the timing of puberty, which is primarily set as 11-16 years old, but is variable depending on environmental factors.  Outside of specific diseases, puberty will occur between approximately 8 and 18-19 in over 95% of the population, and in 100%  of the population (again, assuming no genetic defect or disease) will have occured by 21 or so.  human death, under the best of circumstances, probably will occur at around 85-90 years.  outside of specific non age related diseases, the range will be around 65-115, which is pretty tight.  The fact that we have *never* observed a mammal that lives forever, the genes that control senescence are likely very tightly connected to genetic programs necessary for survival-so that if an animal is missing the genetic program that controls death, it won't survive embryogenesis to begin with (otherwise, some percentage of mammals would live extremely long-which likely is extraordinarily damaging to the population of that species, and is thus dramatically regulated so it will never occur).\nIt is fairly likely that, within the next 100 years, this genetic control program will be dissected and understood, and then it will be a short time until it will regulatable clinically.  \nDeath is controlled by our genes, which are, in the end, simply biochemical control systems, and which are comprehensible with enough study- Then it becomes a societal decision as to how we should manipulate this.\n*edit* There is interesting observation with telomeres, and about 10 years ago, we thought this might be the hidden secret, but unfortunately, it doesn't appear to be so.  In many immortal, or long-living cells, telomeres play no role, and even in cells in which telomeres are artificially extended, there is still senescence (though it appears to occur somewhat later).  Telomeres are a clock that determines how many times a cell may divide before it enters a "cellular suicide" program, and thus it was thought this was critical to lengthening lifespan-however, most sensescence in mammals does not seem to occur because o
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It's not 'how long you live' it's more 'how well you live'. an example: \n\n2 guys both aged 80 die. One exercised the other did'nt.\n\nThe quality of life and health up to his death would be far better for the fit guy than the sedentary guy. He could probably play (not a super tough game) with his great grand children in the back yard\n\nThe other guy is more likely to have been in a wheelchair for some years.\n\n'Use it or lose it'
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It's simple mathmatics...number of people by the age at which they died.\n\nIt's getting longer, fact.
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64,631,595\n\nnote: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2006 est.)
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Persons 65 years old and over, percent, 2000  17.6% 12.4%
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Many Chinese believe that any death above the age of 70 is a 'happy death', meaning that the person lived to an old age.\n\nIf you mean to say an official recognition of old age, then I don't know.
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If you're under the age of 30 and your spouse in under the age of 30, you have less than 50% chance of surviving more than 1 year.  That's pretty staggering, wish I had a source for this... but it's something I read a number of years ago... I'm sure the rates of success have fallen with what the world has become...
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mortality = death\nmorbidity = sickness
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Hungary: 7.5%.\nIn the EU on average it’s 8.5%, so I would say it’s quite good. However, this is not necessarily good. This low percentage can be “thanked” to the fact that few people work, many are off the work oficially (pension because of age or health). Also, there are many illegal jobs.
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Must be around 6 billion. Wow, to think I remember back when the world population was around 4 billion. No matter how many people die off, they keep popping back up like crabgrass.
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Japan has the longest healthy life expectancy of 74.5 years. Austria follows by 73.2 years, and France 73.1 years.
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That's a big gap, between 50 and 80. A lot can happen in 30 years, and although I would prefer to die peacefully among friends that can't make up for what I can accomplish in 30 years time. I have to go with 80.
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The moment we are born we start to die.  It just takes longer for some of us.  I am 36.
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Probably between 6-8 percent, just like the general population. I don't know where you got the 1% from, but it's wrong.