A Comment About
Jousting with the Lancet: Pajamas Media Interviews Professor Gilbert Burnham
October 20, 2006 - 9:46 am
Rob S
2006-10-21 18:24:27
To Tom W:
Re: “20006 Mortality rates (CIA World Factbook)
China 6.97 US 8.26″
Your example illustrates my point. China’s population is aging at an extremely high rate, and its average age is expected to surpass that of the U.S. in a relatively short period of time. Admittedly, low mortality and low fertility are both factors which are acting concurrently to rapidly increase the average age of China’s population.
Do you really think that an aging poulation is a sign of a high mortality rate, as Burnham would have us believe? Or, are you just being argumentative?
