Comment by elephant_burger
4 years ago
To your point, the global “average” life expectancy since the 1700s to today visualized https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy?tab=chart...
4 years ago
To your point, the global “average” life expectancy since the 1700s to today visualized https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy?tab=chart...
How to mislead with data 101!
Indeed, though see the article linked at the bottom of that one, which goes into more of the nuance and has distribution curves etc: https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy-how-is-it-calcula...