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Do you know the life expectancy of a human child at birth?

  • 18 year in the Stone Ages (Bronze Era)
  • 28 year during the Roman Empire
  • 33 year in the Middle Ages
  • 37 year around 1900
  • 78 year currently (in the western world)

What a wealth of time we have!

Derived from the Encyclopædia Britannica, 1961

 
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