[albrewer]

From what I've read, if you filter out children under 5 in that statistic people lived into their early 60's pretty regularly.

[Tade0]

High child mortality is still a bad thing.

[albrewer]

Not saying it's not, but the implication that everyone was dying at 30 isn't true.

[Tade0]

That's not what's implied. Only thing that was said was that the average lifespan was 31. Could be any curve under that number, but it's bad however you cut it.

[euroderf]

Yes. Stats about average lifetimes are quite misleading & useless until you filter out child mortality.