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That depends on how you look at it. You could also call it a great success: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy#/media/File:Life_expectancy_by_world_r
by w-m 7y ago
That depends on how you look at it. You could also call it a great success: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy#/media/File:Life_expectancy_by_world_region,_from_1770_to_2018.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy#/media/File:Li...
- dekhn 7y agoThat mixes the massive improvements in child mortality rates with the modest improvement in "age of mortality when child mortality is excluded".
- w-m 7y agoSure, but all of these children got to live a full life instead of dying early, so "prolongation of life" applies there as well. A job well done, time to cross it off the to-do list? :)
- melling 7y agoNope, from his second item on the list, I’d say you missed his point. “ The Recovery of Youth, or at least some of the Marks of it, as new Teeth, new Hair colour’d as in youth.”