How life expectancy of humans changed over time

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We are living in 21st Century and now with the help of development in medical as well as every other industries, our life has became more comfortable to live. But it was not same back then. Back in the time life expectancy of people was not so long. Gradually it started to increase as a result of increasing development in medical and hygienic field.

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Life expectancy Back in early 1800s

During 1800-1850 the life expectancy of peoples was not so long. According to reports, people tends to live for only about 30-35 years. Can you imagine how short it was. And what if it's still the same in this century. Thanks to the improved technology.

The reason for this short lifespan is mainly because of poor hygienic condition.

Because of poor hygiene, there was more chances of parasites, bacteria , virus to attack the host body. And due to poor quality and not so developed medical industries, it was not easy to get rid of even low harmful disease like fever.

Chickenpox and polio was a lethal disease but now it's rare. This is how antibiotics uses to save life.

During that time, even a fever may be fatal and leads you to death.

Life expectancy in 21st Century

With passing time peoples started understanding about the hygienic measures and started developing antibiotics which directly lead to increase in life span.

During 19th century, in increased to 44 years( both sexes). There are some reports that shows the rate according to time passed. You can see it here.

And now in the time we are living, life expectancy is almost about 72 years. You can imagine how the statistics changed almost twice from 18th century. This is mainly because of higher understanding of hygienic conditions, improved medical facilities etc. People are smart as compared from the 18th century and with the help of internet they get the needed information by only one click.

But also the number of diseases are increasing, new diseases are transmitting from animals to humans but it's curable with the provided medical attention.

Recently Corona virus is spreading worldwide and it's believed to be originated from bats. And if we still be consuming each and every alive animals, the consequences will be even worst

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@punkblogs first of all very nice article , currently as per my understanding their are many reasons which leads to low life expectancy. Pollution , adulteration in food etc are most important factor Behind low life expectancy. We need to understand this otherwise the day will come we will have only 30-40 years of age.

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Yeah that's true. All people should understand this. Nature plays an important role in everyone's life.

With consumption of every animals now the diseases are spreading even more fastly then we expected. We should keep this in mind which will in turn benefit ourselves

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According to reports, people tends to live for only about 30-35 years.

Wow... If I lived back then, I would be dead a buried by now! 😱

Good article, thanks for the information!

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Haha thanks to the improvised technology.

Glad you liked it. Thanks for the kind words.

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A little bit of knowledge can drive us a long way forward in life and take us to new levels of health, wealth and happiness. Back then when life expectancy was so short, people led brutal lives having to undertake so much more manual labour to do simple things that machines do for us at the touch of a button today.

Technology, science and evolution propel us to new heights of achievement and creativity,however, people now are in many ways not so smart because they ask Google, Alexa and Siri for the answers so they do not need to read books or research subjects, in many ways I believe this is a problem because without the learning, books and knowledge maybe we would not have lives that are so much longer and better... What does this mean for the future?

Good to meet you in Gems on Discord my friend :)

Technology has a place in the future, BUT humanity has a far greater place. When we work together we are capable of greatness. I have a banner I made to finish all my posts, it is something I believe in massively.

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Thanks for having time to read my post.

Yes now a days be it a small problem people go on with asking to Google Siri etc. That made our thinking a bit dumb.

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