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75 was the most common age to die for French males from that time across the board. Not conditioned on making it to 60. The "life expectancy" of someone given
by spywaregorilla 4y ago
75 was the most common age to die for French males from that time across the board. Not conditioned on making it to 60.
The "life expectancy" of someone given they made it to 60 was similarly high. Highlighted only to dispel people's imaginations that people used to be "old" when they reached their society's average life expectancy. They don't look physically old. Nor are they even outliers. 1930s French society would have had lots of people in their 60s, 70s, and 80s,