Here's the first one I found by searching for 'life expectancy by age'. You can see that child mortality was indeed very large, but adult mortality has also dec

Here's the first one I found by searching for 'life expectancy by age'. You can see that child mortality was indeed very large, but adult mortality has also declined sharply e.g. a 20-year-old white male today can expect to live 15 years longer than his counterpart in 1900: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005140.html http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005140.html