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>Lastly, new mothers had a (if I recall correctly) 15% chance of dying during childbirth or shortly thereafter. .85^4 = 52% chance of surviving 4 childbirths.
by DaveExeter 4y ago
>Lastly, new mothers had a (if I recall correctly) 15% chance of dying during childbirth or shortly thereafter.
.85^4 = 52% chance of surviving 4 childbirths. Does that seem right?
The figure I've heard is 2%.
About half of children died before maturity, so each women had to have 4 children just to keep population stable.
- pedalpete 4y agoYou're closer to being correct than my initial estimate. I was taking the average number of children born to a woman at 8. The population wasn't stable, it was growing. Mortality during childbirth either 1 or 2%. So somewhere in the 12-15% range that a woman would die of (one of her) childbirths. So, yeah seems about right. What is .85 in your calculation?