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| Native white | Colored
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| Porto| United| Porto| United
| Rico | States| Rico | States
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Under 5 years | 16.5 | 13.5 | 17.1 | 12.9
5 to 14 years | 26.3 | 23. | 27.1 | 24.4
15 to 24 years | 20. | 20.3 | 19.8 | 21.3
25 to 44 years | 25.4 | 26.5 | 24.2 | 26.8
45 to 64 years | 9.6 | 13. | 9.4 | 11.3
65 years and over | 2.2 | 3.6 | 2.4 | 3.
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Undoubtedly the work of the Department of Sanitation and of the
Institute of Tropical Medicine will do much to change the death rate
within the next few years, and to prolong life. We may well expect the
next census to show a much larger percentage of the population in the
higher age groups.