Yes. I went looking for life expectancy at 20 in 1830s France but could not find it via casual Googling. EDIT: Ah, should have gone straight to Wolfram Alpha:

Yes. I went looking for life expectancy at 20 in 1830s France but could not find it via casual Googling. EDIT: Ah, should have gone straight to Wolfram Alpha: The answer is that if you lived to be 20 odds were you'd live to 60. Unless, alas, you were Balzac. http://m.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=life+expectancy+at+20+in+France+1830&x=0&y=0 http://m.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=life+expectancy+at+20+in+... Alpha is the amateur demographer's dream. Just look at those tasty charts and graphs. Of course I didn't read closely enough to figure out where this data was coming from. ;)