This is true, but there was also a significantly increased risk of death in young adults from accidents and in women during childbirth; also, “nearly as old as we do now” still means a decade or so off the end.
Yep, I checked from here and there’s still 17 extra years for males and 21 extra years for females in 2011 compared to 1850 in “life expectancy at age 20”.
This is true, but there was also a significantly increased risk of death in young adults from accidents and in women during childbirth; also, “nearly as old as we do now” still means a decade or so off the end.
Yep, I checked from here and there’s still 17 extra years for males and 21 extra years for females in 2011 compared to 1850 in “life expectancy at age 20”.
More specifically, all the cells in the “2011” row of the “White males” table are around 40% larger than the corresponding cells in the “1890” row.