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Lord_Kristopf -2 points ago +4 / -6

FWIW, life expectancy for a white male in 1789 was just 38 years old.

https://www.mcall.com/news/mc-xpm-1987-06-28-2569915-story.html

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Philhelm 1 point ago +1 / -0

That was heavily skewed due to infant mortality.

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RexCollumSilvarum 1 point ago +1 / -0

I'm not the one who downvoted you, but this is misleading. The low number is because of massive infant and child mortality. Today it is vanishingly rare for a baby to die immediately after being born; back then it was commonplace; maybe 10-20% of births. All these zeroes and ones drag down the average; old people lived almost as long as they do now.