>> The remaining adults can fight in an emergency (though a >> percentage are unfit for military service - about 5%)
> I find that somewhat hard to swallow. Are we *really* saying that
> 95% of Heortling men and women aged 15+ are "fit for military
> service"? (Per my pop stats, qv., that would exclude over-65's
> *only*).
There's a slight risk of unclarity, here, so I'll be briefly boring:
Ages
65-69: 0.9% (men) + 0.9% (women) 70-74: 0.8% (men) + 0.8% (women) 75+: 0.7% (men) + 0.7% (women)
Total: 4.8% of all Heortlings (that's 5%, near as dammit).
But 50% of Heortlings are children (aged under 15). If TR was saying that just 5% of all Heortling *adults* aren't "fit for military service", then that's only the over-seventies (0.8 + 0.8 + 0.7 + 0.7 = 3.0% of all Heortlings, therefore 6.0% of adult Heortlings).
Scary stuff. I don't trust that 5% figure one little bit...
Cheers, Nick
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