Great graph showing the success of Capitalism and the failures of Communism. That might upset some folks, but the facts are what they are.
Covid was just a common cold though /s
I’m suprised how linear it is, I would’ve expected a more logarithmic graph
I’m less interested in the general life expectancy and more interested in the average life length of people who reached old age, e.g. 65.
For example, life expectancy in 1955 was 50. Ok, a bunch of people died at young age and throughout life back then. But what I want to know is, of the people who were born in 1955 and reached old age, how long did they live on average?
Is there a statistic for that?
I always look at these graphs and think “but isn’t this just a downward infant mortality trend?” Because the majority of this movement is on the baby and young child side of things.
More useful would be death rate under 16, or maybe life expectancy past 16, or better yet 40 once we can rule out most military deaths – all assuming we are looking for “how old people can expect to live”
Wait, the late 1950s? Isn’t that the time a certain orange person believes America was “great” and wants to return to?
Something that is taken for granted in most of the world is the steady proliferation of indoor plumbing and water treatment plants. Countries without either still experience much greater occurrence of diseases, and consequently lower mortality. Something like a billion people still wake up every day without access to clean water.
At this point, I’m no longer sure living longer has any benefits. I’m looking at 40 years of washes garnished for social security that I’ll probably not see a penny of.
This shows the the recent decline started in about mid-late 2018, which is quite far in advance of Covid. The CDC didn’t start tracking Covid deaths until January of 2020. [https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm](https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm)
Isn’t this just an edited version of a post that got removed earlier today?
What country is this? All of them? The graph is very minimal information. It could give the slope of that curve against some other factor, or by a specific grouping to illustrate a cause or effect.
If this graph started just 15 years earlier there would be a dip 3x bigger than the great leap forward representing WW2
![[OC] Average life expectancy is steadily rising (apart from the late 1950s and Covid)](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/6gumg0vix0kd1.png)
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Source: [https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy](https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy)
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A chart of life expectancy before 1950: [https://www.gapminder.org/questions/gms1-4/](https://www.gapminder.org/questions/gms1-4/)
Life expectancy excluding infant mortality: [https://ourworldindata.org/its-not-just-about-child-mortality-life-expectancy-improved-at-all-ages](https://ourworldindata.org/its-not-just-about-child-mortality-life-expectancy-improved-at-all-ages)
Great graph showing the success of Capitalism and the failures of Communism. That might upset some folks, but the facts are what they are.
Covid was just a common cold though /s
I’m suprised how linear it is, I would’ve expected a more logarithmic graph
I’m less interested in the general life expectancy and more interested in the average life length of people who reached old age, e.g. 65.
For example, life expectancy in 1955 was 50. Ok, a bunch of people died at young age and throughout life back then. But what I want to know is, of the people who were born in 1955 and reached old age, how long did they live on average?
Is there a statistic for that?
I always look at these graphs and think “but isn’t this just a downward infant mortality trend?” Because the majority of this movement is on the baby and young child side of things.
More useful would be death rate under 16, or maybe life expectancy past 16, or better yet 40 once we can rule out most military deaths – all assuming we are looking for “how old people can expect to live”
Wait, the late 1950s? Isn’t that the time a certain orange person believes America was “great” and wants to return to?
Something that is taken for granted in most of the world is the steady proliferation of indoor plumbing and water treatment plants. Countries without either still experience much greater occurrence of diseases, and consequently lower mortality. Something like a billion people still wake up every day without access to clean water.
At this point, I’m no longer sure living longer has any benefits. I’m looking at 40 years of washes garnished for social security that I’ll probably not see a penny of.
This shows the the recent decline started in about mid-late 2018, which is quite far in advance of Covid. The CDC didn’t start tracking Covid deaths until January of 2020. [https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm](https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm)
Isn’t this just an edited version of a post that got removed earlier today?
What country is this? All of them? The graph is very minimal information. It could give the slope of that curve against some other factor, or by a specific grouping to illustrate a cause or effect.
If this graph started just 15 years earlier there would be a dip 3x bigger than the great leap forward representing WW2