8 Sept 2026
In which John explores the question of historical life expectancy, and how sometimes a misleading narrative is corrected by … a misleading narrative.
If you want to understand historical and present life expectancy in granular detail, I recommend these Our World in Data articles, where I got most of the information in this video:
How Does the Risk of Death Change as We Age? https://ourworldindata.org/how-do-the…
Life Expectancy Has Increased at All Ages: https://ourworldindata.org/life-expec…
It’s Not Just about Child Mortality: https://ourworldindata.org/its-not-ju…

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