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What's with that huge drop in life expectancy between 1910-1920?
by luckman212 5y ago
What's with that huge drop in life expectancy between 1910-1920?
- mmcwilliams 5y agoI would expect WWI had something to do with that. Spanish Flu as well.
- HPsquared 5y agoI wonder if there will be a similar dip in 2020-21.
- kqr 5y agoNot visibly, no. Several reasons, where the most obvious is that our medical care and availability of information has massively improved. Another is that the 1918 pandemic hit young and healthy people disproportionately.
- eCa 5y agoA dip, but nothing like the 1910’s. I’ve heard a rediction of up to two years. Covid mostly killed older people, while WW1 for obvious reasons mostly killed young people, therefore having a greater effect on life expectancy.
- owlninja 5y agoInfluenza epidemic of 1918 possibly? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu
- DaveExeter 5y agoWorld War I?
- dragonwriter 5y agoWWI killed a huge number of people (about 1% of world population), largely in young adulthood. The 1918 flu epidemic killed even more (3 times as many), but not weighted as young; together it was a big hit on life expectancy.