57 | Visualizing Human Development w/ Max Roser
Data Stories
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The Trends in Health in the Middle Ages
In countries before they entered what is called the health transition, roughly a third or more of the children died before their fifth birthday. In some countries it was probably more than every second child that died before the fifth birthday. The average life expectancy has been so low because half of the population died before the first birthday. A lot of forms of cancer are decreasing. Most prominently lung cancer, because smoking went down so massively... Oh yeah, it's going down. But also other forms ofcancer are decreasing.
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