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Lower infant mortality is a direct result of medical technology.

Birth rates before the so called baby boom in this century were significantly, consistently higher, but this has never happened before because not enough of those boom babies survived.

The article mentions that the maximum life expectancy has basically never increased.



If infant mortality remained constant, you'd still have periods with seniors being overrepresented 65 years after a boom.




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