(6 July 2013, 20:38)Highlander Wrote: (6 July 2013, 20:04)Mortblanc Wrote: And life expectancy was 35!
Blimey, how far back are you going?
When my father was born, in 1925, life expectancy was 56. That was after "germs" were known and most diseases identified and public health laws instituted.
The year I was born PNEUMONIA was the #1 killer. We take a pill for that now. Herbal remedies did not seem to help it much for the past million years.
If you check the world health organization figures you will find that countries in crisis, with some health care still in operation but not at the most modern levels, automatically revert to 56 as life expectancy.
The real crunch comes in infant mortality where preindustrial society loses 50% of the infants in the first year and 50% of the remainder die before reaching aqe 10. That means that in SHTF society when one looks at a single 10 year old child 3 others did not make it that far.
After penicillin and other antibiotic were developed we stretched it out to 70+ years. That was not until after WW2.
The next big jump came with new developments in coronary care in the 1980s-1990s. More people survive heart attacks today than in the past due to procedures and medications. You can kiss that goodbye SHTF!
SHTF We may not die from every nick and scrap we get but that cold going into pneumonia, diabetes, chest pains and such will have more fatal outcomes.
Just ask the Russians. Their present life expectancy is 56.
Sorry, I rechecked my figures and things are up in eastern Europe by about 4 years from when I last checked.
The tables change constantly.
It is surprising how much the age expectations differ in various situation. Some nations have females outliving males by over a decade.
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