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  1. Desperate_Ad_5563 on

    So 67 is the new 95 now? With a dragging zero percent after age 85. That’s cool to see the visualization!

  2. Ild love to see a plot for percent survival but with middle ages graph scaled and 100% at 3 years.

  3. I’m really surprised it’s so linear in the pre industrial period once you get past infant mortality.

    I would have thought you would see a significant increase in mortality around the median first child bearing age. My understanding is that 17th century England was seeing mother mortality rates of nearly 1.7% per birth.

  4. Well these charts (and the differences and rates of change) shatter the often-repeated notion that “average age was the same! just a lot more infant mortality!”

  5. I know the point of this is the comparison, but is anyone else surprised that currently in the United States ~1 in 10 people don’t make it to 55yr old? I did not realize the total death rate reached 10% by 55

  6. giordanopietrofiglio on

    But at what cost? Children are banned from their highest form of self expression, mining and mineral extraction.

  7. I wonder what the blue curve would look like if you removed all the people who smoke, ate, or drank themselves to death. Would probably be a lot flatter for the most part then drop precipitously at the end.

  8. So this is a post about data. From a display point of view, why is there space below the zero line? You can’t have more than 100% die.