shouldn’t we have extended the life expectancy to at least 90-100 years with all the advancements we have in medicine now?
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It is going up, steadily. I think 2 years average for every 10 years that go by.
We did see a massive increase in the average in the first half of the 1900s with the advent of modern medicine and science advances. But the biggest contributor of that was in infant mortality and early childhood deaths. Nowadays it’s down to like 4 in 1,000 deaths in the first year of life, and we’ve drastically changed everything we do with children from their car seats to the materials their toys are made of.
Dying at the age of 0 was really tanking the average. Eating lead and breathing lead wasn’t doing anyone favors either
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