Life Expectancy 1918 at Life

Life Expectancy 1918. It can be computed only for cohorts that were born many decades ago, all of whose members have died. “what the hell happened?” crosby told the new york times writer gina kolata in her book flu:

Life expectancy in 1918 had fallen to 39 years. Men only lived an average of 36.6 years, and women only lived 42.2 years. So the bbc article is right.

The largest influenza pandemic in history (Spanish flu

From 1917 to 1918, life expectancy is estimated to have fallen by. A second striking feature of this visualization is the big decline of life expectancy in 1918. You can see from figure 2 that, sure enough, life expectancy drops from 48, in 1917, to 36, in 1918 (you can check that from their data, here ). I don’t have data for people born in 1895, but assume that the life expectancy was even lower then than in 1911.