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by roel_v 4409 days ago
Yes, this is true. Life expectancy of adults has gone up, but only a bit; the heavy increase in average age is due to a heavy drop off of birth/child mortality.

The average media reporting and understanding of statistics makes it seem as if a 50 year old person in medieval times was a rare occurrence, which it was not.

(at least I think this is what you were saying?)