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Monday, August 30, 2010

I SHOULD BE DEAD

I read something I couldn't believe, that one hundred years ago the life expectancy was 47. I thought no way, not THAT recently. I googled life expectancy in U.S. 1900. First thing I see is this chart, year by year. This is crazy stuff. For a man, it was true. The reason this caught my eye so much is that I'm 46. So all else equal, had I been born back when, I'd be on my death bed. Wow. I knew I should have stopped paying the fucking mortgage!

Life expectancy in the USA, 1900-98

men and women

Year

M

F

1900

46.3

48.3

1901

47.6

50.6

1902

49.8

53.4

1903

49.1

52.0

1904

46.2

49.1

1905

47.3

50.2

1906

46.9

50.8

1907

45.6

49.9

1908

49.5

52.8

1909

50.5

53.8

1910

48.4

51.8

1911

50.9

54.4

1912

51.5

55.9

1913

50.3

55.0

1914

52.0

56.8

1915

52.5

56.8

1916

49.6

54.3

1917

48.4

54.0

1918

36.6

42.2

1919

53.5

56.0

1920

53.6

54.6

1921

60.0

61.8

1922

58.4

61.0

1923

56.1

58.5

1924

58.1

61.5

1925

57.6

60.6

1926

55.5

58.0

1927

59.0

62.1

1928

55.6

58.3

1929

55.8

58.7

1930

58.1

61.6

1931

59.4

63.1

1932

61.0

63.5

1933

61.7

65.1

1934

59.3

63.3

1935

59.9

63.9

1936

56.6

60.6

1937

58.0

62.4

1938

61.9

65.3

1939

62.1

65.4

1940

60.8

65.2

1941

63.1

66.8

1942

64.7

67.9

1943

62.4

64.4

1944

63.6

66.8

1945

63.6

67.9

1946

64.4

69.4

1947

64.4

69.7

1948

64.6

69.9

1949

65.2

70.7

1950

65.6

71.1

1951

65.6

71.4

1952

65.8

71.6

1953

66.0

72.0

1954

66.7

72.8

1955

66.7

72.8

1956

66.7

72.9

1957

66.4

72.7

1958

66.6

72.9

1959

66.8

73.2

1960

66.6

73.1

1961

67.0

73.6

1962

66.8

73.4

1963

66.6

73.4

1964

66.9

73.7

1965

66.8

73.7

1966

66.7

73.8

1967

67.0

74.2

1968

66.6

74.0

1969

66.8

74.3

1970

67.1

74.7

1971

67.4

75.0

1972

67.4

75.1

1973

67.6

75.3

1974

68.2

75.9

1975

68.8

76.6

1976

69.1

76.8

1977

69.5

77.2

1978

69.6

77.3

1979

70.0

77.8

1980

70.0

77.4

1981

70.4

77.8

1982

70.8

78.1

1983

71.0

78.1

1984

71.1

78.2

1985

71.1

78.2

1986

71.2

78.2

1987

71.4

78.3

1988

71.4

78.3

1989

71.7

78.5

1990

71.8

78.8

1991

72.0

78.9

1992

72.3

79.1

1993

72.2

78.8

1994

72.3

79.0

1995

72.5

78.9

1996

73.1

79.1

1997

73.6

79.4

1998

73.8

79.5

7 Comments:

Anonymous Tom B said...

I am with you guy. Love the posts.

Tom

August 31, 2010 at 5:32 AM

 
Blogger Jen said...

Jeff,

I've known about that for years. Think about it. A hundred years ago there were no antibiotics, so if you got an infection you could die really easily. Pneumonia killed people left and right, and TB (they called it consumption back then) was rampant. There were no heart operations, and surgery in general was still very risky. Medical advances have made life expectancy into the late 70's and 80's something we almost take for granted. If you had been in your 40's in 1900, you wouldn't have been in your 40's, you would've been dead. Insulin wasn't isolated until the early '20's, and it took a while after that to become an actual treatment. People didn't live much past their 20's or so if they were diabetic back then. You were definitely born in the right era!

August 31, 2010 at 5:29 PM

 
Blogger Mary said...

Aw shit, I only have 29 years left according to this!! That's not a lot of time...better get on that bucket list!

September 1, 2010 at 2:13 PM

 
Blogger Unknown said...

When Wolfgang A. Mozart was my age... he'd been dead for twenty-four years. So, I got that going for me.

September 2, 2010 at 8:08 AM

 
Blogger Unknown said...

When Wolfgang A. Mozart was my age... he'd been dead for twenty-four years. So, I got that going for me.

September 2, 2010 at 8:08 AM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

But the biggest factor with this is infant mortality. So it's not so much that you'd probably be dead at 47 - it's more that you may not have made it to age 10. If you did, you could have lived a fairly long life.

October 3, 2010 at 12:19 PM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

HEY JEFF,
HOPE THINGS ARE WELL.....SURE COULD USE A NEW UPDATE.

November 20, 2010 at 3:11 PM

 

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