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  2. Diseases and epidemics of the 19th century - Wikipedia

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    Epidemics of the 19th century were faced without the medical advances that made 20th-century epidemics much rarer and less lethal. Micro-organisms (viruses and bacteria) had been discovered in the 18th century, but it was not until the late 19th century that the experiments of Lazzaro Spallanzani and Louis Pasteur disproved spontaneous generation conclusively, allowing germ theory and Robert ...

  3. Life expectancy - Wikipedia

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    Life expectancy in 1800, 1950, and 2015 ... In 2022, the life expectancy was 77.5 in the United States, a decline from 2014, but an increase from 2021.

  4. Mortality in the early modern period - Wikipedia

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    The early modern age saw various economic changes as well as several significant diseases that have affected the mortality rates. Data collection during this time was not consistent or broadly recorded and there have been efforts to reconstruct plausible statistics. [1]

  5. List of countries by past life expectancy - Wikipedia

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    Life expectancy by world region, from 1770 to 2018. This is a list of countries showing past life expectancy, ranging from 1950 to 2015 in five-year periods, as estimated by the 2017 revision of the World Population Prospects database by the United Nations Population Division. Life expectancy equals the average number of years a person born in ...

  6. How Long You Were Expected to Live the Year You Were Born

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    1943. Overall life expectancy: 63.3 Women: 64.4 Men: 62.4 Life expectancy dropped almost three years from 1942 to 1943. Though World War II may have driven a decline, a change in how life ...

  7. Slave health on plantations in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A broad and common measure of the health of a population is its life expectancy. The life expectancy in 1850 of a White person in the United States was forty; for a slave, it was thirty-six. [1] Mortality statistics for Whites were calculated from census data; statistics for slaves were based on small sample-sizes. [1]

  8. Opinion: The decline in American life expectancy harms more ...

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    This alarming trend, which began before COVID, fuels a deadly cycle of a sick workforce and weakened economy.

  9. Great Divergence - Wikipedia

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    Real wages in Netherlands declined during the early modern period between 1450 and 1800. The decline was fastest between 1450/ ... Life expectancy increased by about ...