Edit. for a majority of human history or life span was only 25 years. If you don’t count infant mortality I guess it was only 32 years.
imnotapartofthis on
I feel this data would be more beautiful if the age axis started at 0, just for perspective.
pingieking on
I can’t help but think that the pre-1900 numbers are not particularly reliable.
Jablungis on
Do you have one for average female lifespan?
RumbuncTheRadiant on
Now wait for the post 2020 dip….
aluvus on
Changes in infant mortality make graphs like this very misleading.
There is no indication of what geographic area is covered, or of data source.
“By decade” should probably be “by decade of birth”.
It is very implausible to me that there is credible data with granularity of a decade, available back to 1600, and that there is literally no variation from 1600 to 1790.
SunAndBlueSkies on
A graph that demonstrates the power of vaccines and antibiotics.
Lord_of_the_Canals on
Man, what the hell was going on in the 1710s?
rollbackprices on
The line starts going up when the medical world started implementing anesthesia and antiseptic.
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This in a way is an infant mortality graph
Edit. for a majority of human history or life span was only 25 years. If you don’t count infant mortality I guess it was only 32 years.
I feel this data would be more beautiful if the age axis started at 0, just for perspective.
I can’t help but think that the pre-1900 numbers are not particularly reliable.
Do you have one for average female lifespan?
Now wait for the post 2020 dip….
Changes in infant mortality make graphs like this very misleading.
There is no indication of what geographic area is covered, or of data source.
“By decade” should probably be “by decade of birth”.
It is very implausible to me that there is credible data with granularity of a decade, available back to 1600, and that there is literally no variation from 1600 to 1790.
A graph that demonstrates the power of vaccines and antibiotics.
Man, what the hell was going on in the 1710s?
The line starts going up when the medical world started implementing anesthesia and antiseptic.