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Consider the following:

1. A high infant mortality rate brings average lifespan down.

2. Infants don't contribute to the economy nor to public pension funds.

A country might have low life expectancy, but a relatively close number of workers and retirees, as life expectances can be (even more so in developing countries) multimodal.



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