Today's improvement is: The average life is now 42 years longer!
gapminder.org/49

Gapminder You're amazing. As is the stuff you post.

But if child mortality (first one/two years) is removed then average increases quite significantly, not? Or is my history memory betraying me.

Alexander Zagoda Gapminder Alexander Zagoda Agree. I've tried to make your point with some data I got from Our World in Data