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From what I've read, if you filter out children under 5 in that statistic people lived into their early 60's pretty regularly.

• Tade0 3y ago
  High child mortality is still a bad thing.
  • albrewer 3y ago
    Not saying it's not, but the implication that everyone was dying at 30 isn't true.
    • Tade0 3y ago
      That's not what's implied. Only thing that was said was that the average lifespan was 31. Could be any curve under that number, but it's bad however you cut it.
• euroderf 3y ago
  Yes. Stats about average lifetimes are quite misleading & useless until you filter out child mortality.