Episode 100: The Good Old Days Weren’t All That Good
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The Average Life Expectancy in the United States
In 1919 for men it was 53 and a half years and for women 56 It had gone up significantly in 1919 from 1918. Presently it's almost 80 but we've got a couple of things floating around in the data during this period The first and most obvious is world war one But in the united states that didn't lead to wholesale carnage Not a lot of people died in world war one from the united states.
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