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The 26 life-expectancy is an average, not when people actually die. It's brought down by high infant mortality.
by lawpoop 10y ago
The 26 life-expectancy is an average, not when people actually die. It's brought down by high infant mortality.
- notahacker 10y agoSure, and the level of infant mortality was dramatically higher than it is today, higher even than most societies living in extreme poverty. I doubt many hunter gatherers survived into their eighties either.