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Big difference between life expectancy (which is an average including child mortality) and life span once people reach adulthood. > Those records show that chi

Big difference between life expectancy (which is an average including child mortality) and life span once people reach adulthood. > Those records show that child mortality remained high. But if a man got to the age of 21 and didn’t die by accident, violence or poison, he could be expected to live almost as long as men today: from 1200 to 1745, 21-year-olds would reach an average age of anywhere between 62 and 70 years – except for the 14th Century, when the bubonic plague cut life expectancy to a paltry 45. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181002-how-long-did-ancient-people-live-life-span-versus-longevity https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181002-how-long-did-anc...

keewee7 5y ago
>Those records show that child mortality remained high. But if a man got to the age of 21 and didn’t die by accident, violence or poison, he could be expected to live almost as long as men today: from 1200 to 1745, 21-year-olds would reach an average age of anywhere between 62 and 70 years If you dig further you can see that these numbers are about male aristocracy in England between 1200 and 1745: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jIMHCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA8&lpg=PA8&dq=guy+sharpe%27s+peerage&source=bl&ots=tZwob0HISg&sig=rQtW27BM_bBF0xgeme2kkBYhMmw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwin3JHb9uTbAhXCqFkKHcRlDqUQ6AEIZjAQ#v=onepage&q=guy%20sharpe's%20peerage&f=fals https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jIMHCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA8&lpg=... The vast majority of people didn't witness their 70th birthday before modern times.