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reycharles on June 10, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: World fertility rates in 'unprecedented decline', ...

> 200 years ago the average life expectancy was 30

If you take out infant mortality the life expectancy wasn't all that different from what it is today. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2625386/

mym1990 on June 10, 2025 [–]

Fair point, this was a blind spot for me!

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