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No they really didn't. This is what the age pyramid looks like for a first world nation: https://www.populationpyramid.net/finland/2022/ https://www.population
by hist_thr 3y ago
No they really didn't.
This is what the age pyramid looks like for a first world nation: https://www.populationpyramid.net/finland/2022/ https://www.populationpyramid.net/finland/2022/
It's a column until you reach 70 then people start dying.
This is what the age pyramid looks like for a society stuck in the Malthusian trap: https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XfdbjKDGvT0/Ti49-5r5EyI/AAAAAAAABVE/KiDAwxps_DY/s1600/medieval_pop_demo.JPG https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XfdbjKDGvT0/Ti49-5r5EyI/AAAAAAAAB...
Notice how people have a half life, the chance of dying when you reach 20 years in any year is 5% regardless of age.
- Dah00n 3y agoFinland though. Try Africa: https://www.populationpyramid.net/africa/2022/ https://www.populationpyramid.net/africa/2022/
- twelve40 3y agotry the world(google), it's actually closer to finland
- Dah00n 3y agoYes, because much of the world export our slave-like labour to poor regions of the world. Those poor people clearly need to be counted in our life expectancy if we are to compare to a time when slaves where in the household etc. Export of misery does make the numbers look nice though.
- hist_thr 3y agoAfrica does not have a 50% child mortality rate. What it has is an an average of 5 children born per woman. In short: not even the worst place in Africa today is as bad as the best place any time before 1900.
- legulere 3y agoA middle age rural village in Germany is not the same as an ancient roman city.
- qwytw 3y ago> middle age rural village in Germany Especially after the plague would have been a much nicer place to live for most people than an average ancient Roman city (or even Rome itself given that's its population was only sustainable because of immigration)