Our World In Data
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Explore the ongoing history of human civilization at the broadest level, through research and data visualization.
Our World In Data
►https://ourworldindata.org
Explore the ongoing history of human civilization at the broadest level, through research and data visualization.
Life Expectancy — Our World in Data
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Life Expectancy
Life Expectancy increased rapidly since the onset of industrialisation and modernisation. In a pre-modern, poor world Life Expectancy was around 30 years in every country of the world. In the early 19th century life expectancy started to increase in the early industrialised countries while it stayed low in the rest of the world and just half a century ago the health of the world was very unequal: good health in the rich countries persistent bad health in those countries that remained poor. But this global inequality is not true anymore. Countries that not long ago were suffering from bad health are catching up rapidly. No country in the world has a lower life expectancy than the the countries with the highest life expectancy in 1800. Since 1900 the global average life expectancy has more than doubled and is now approaching 70 years.