Lotsa talk about short life expectancy in 1800's
Lotsa talk about short life expectancy in 1800's
But the numbers are really skewed by the child mortality rate. The child mortality rate in the United States, for children under the age of five, was 462.9 deaths per thousand births in 1800. This means that for every thousand babies born in 1800, over 46 percent did not make it to their fifth birthday.
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