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I think a more useful metric would be average life expectancy of the subset of people who lived over say 20 or 30. We could compare that number at 1600s with the present to see the net impact of lifestyle changes (fast food, minimum exercise) vs advances in medical care.


ourworldindata has some neat graphs for this. Even though they cover only small slice of history and geography, its still provides some insight how longevity has evolved: https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy#it-is-not-only-ab...




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