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. 2015 Dec;5(12):a025965. doi: 10.1101/cshperspect.a025965

Table 3.

Proportion surviving to age 65 conditional on having survived to age 25 by sex, race, and level of completed education in the United States in 2008

Years of school completed
<12 12 13–15 16+
White males 61.3 73.2 86.4 91.0
White females 72.8 84.1 91.9 93.8
Black males 59.8 63.6 80.5 84.5
Black females 73.1 76.9 86.6 88.4
Hispanic males 83.5 81.8 89.6 92.2
Hispanic females 90.6 90.2 94.0 95.0

Unpublished data from research conducted for the MacArthur Research Network on an Aging Society. (Related data from the same life tables were published in Olshansky et al. 2012 and reprinted here, with permission, from the author.)