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Every day of infancy is safer than in the past (files.catbox.moe)
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Source: https://ourworldindata.org/how-do-the-risks-of-death-change-as-people-age

Data: https://github.com/owid/notebooks/tree/main/SaloniDattani

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Chance of death approaches zero the older you get.

[–] julianwgs@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I know that this was probably a joke, but here is how the full curve looks like:

https://ourworldindata.org/how-do-the-risks-of-death-change-as-people-age

(As in the original post mind the logarithmic scale on y-axis)

[–] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

it appears that 12 year olds are invincible. this is probably why we are primed in our adolescence to take risks.