47. What Can Happen in 300 Years?
Shit You Don't Learn in School
Child Mortality
Child mortality is probably one of the best matricks that you can look at over time for the overall health of a society. In 18 hundred forty three % of children would die before their fifth birthday. That number to day is under five percent in the developed world, and it's under one per cent in wealthier countries. Life expectancy across the world was around 30, maybe up to 35, until 19 hundred. And then it really in the last century where things completely changed,. You just see this totally upward trajectory.
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