[billforsternz]

7000 million people in the world. 30 million seconds in a year. 3000 million seconds in a lifetime. So approx 2 people die a second.

[billforsternz]

I should have made it clearer that this is just a sanity check. I find the rough approximation 30 million seconds in a year often comes in handy for back of the envelopers like this. 10 seconds thought was all it took to check that 2 people dying every second is at the very least reasonable.

[dx034]

Life expectancy is way below 100 years currently. Even for people born now, it's probably only 100 years in some developed countries.

[billforsternz]

It's very much a back of the envelope calculation, everything is very approximate, 100 years makes for an easier calculation.

[truth_sentinell]

Ok, so where's the part where you get that 2 from?

[billforsternz]

Well 7/3 = 2 (more or less - the whole calculation is very approximate obviously). The basic idea is if you have 100 people (of a broad spectrum of ages) you'd expect about 1 of them to die each year.