Quote Originally Posted by Ram59 View Post
I think you're both right, I've seen that the average age is around 60 on more than one occasion, yet you look the individual age groups and it appears much higher.

NHS fugures of deaths in hospital. I think that makes it clear it is a pensioners nightmare not a late fifties average killer.

Gender
Age group Female Male Unknown gender Total
Total 9,705 15,374 1 25,080

0 - 19 yrs 6 8 0 14
20 - 39 79 103 0 182
40 - 59 660 1,334 0 1,994
60 - 79 3,273 6,393 0 9,666
80+ 5,687 7,536 1 13,224
Unknown age 0 0 0