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by DavidAdams 7y ago
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- rayiner 7y agoThe increase is mostly due to childhood mortality. I'm pretty sure 5 year olds weren't dying of lung cancer back in the day. Life expectancy once you're middle-aged has gone up quite modestly: https://ourworldindata.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Life-expectancy-by-age-in-the-UK-1700-to-2013-768x538.png https://ourworldindata.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Life-e.... For someone my age (late 30s), life expectancy has only gone up by about 13 years since 1850.