> Life expectancy in the 1820s was 30 to 40 That is the statistic _at birth_ If you were lucky en
Life expectancy in the 1820s was 30 to 40That is the statistic at birth
If you were lucky enough to survive the various illnesses and get to 15, you had about the same chance of reaching 70 as today.
It is the advances of medicine that means more of us are surviving to 15.
