10-03-2016, 10:08 AM
(10-03-2016, 09:59 AM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:(10-02-2016, 09:48 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(10-02-2016, 07:22 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: A good assumption is that Boomers will live longer than Silents did.
Highly doubtful. Life expectancy has been falling for a decade among working class whites and is now falling for whites overall - enough so that it's stagnant for the overall population.
Quote:Life expectancy fell for the U.S. white population in 2014 and remained flat for all population groups combined, according to data released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
http://www.wsj.com/articles/life-expecta...1461124861
That neatly coincides with the shift from Silents to Boomers of the peak death years.
Right ... but ... the non-working-class white, and, non-white, Boomers, will go on, and on .... and on.
It isn't limited to working class whites. Ten years ago it was - probably because the peak death years shifted from Silents to Boomers earlier for the working class - but now it's all whites.
For minorities it's compensated by continued improvement in medical care toward what whites enjoy, but I don't think they make up enough of the Silents and Boomers to prevent the trend from encompassing the overall population average in another five or ten years.