kottke.orgAn Astonishing Graph. For most of human history, around 50% of children used to die before they reached the end of puberty. In 2020, that number is 4.3%. (It’s 0.3% in countries like Japan & Norway.) https://kottke.org/25/12/an-astonishing-graph
Spitefully Optimistic@kottke this is why you see low _average_ life expectancy figures for so long. It's not that people didn't live to be 70 or 80 years old, but the average is very skewed by the lots of babies that didn't make it.