The average life expectancy of a person is estimated to be around 70 years of age. With all the natural disasters, people smoking, the global aids epidemic, terrorism, drug overdoses, liquor related deaths, accidents, murders, war, et cetera. I’m sure the average life expectancy is much lower.
I’m pretty sure the average life expectancy takes in account all that stuff already.
Visit a cemetery sometime and you’ll be surprised how many people have died at a much younger age. Nevertheless, let’s suppose that the average person lives to be 70 years old. 8,000,000,000 divided by 70 equals 114,285,714. This means that 114,285,714 people, on average, die every year. If we divide 114,285,714 by 365 days in a year, this means that an average of 313,111 people are dying every day in this world.
According to estimates I found online, it’s more like 150,000 or so. (I guess BOC underestimated it in Don’t Fear the Reaper) I think maybe he’s failing to take population growth into account??