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What is the average life expectancy of someone born today in North America? How about in a few other countries? Here are some numbers, based on 2006 estimates, according to the CIA World Fact Book:
While average life expectancies have varied historically, life spans haven't. Using base numbers from an old Encyclopædia Britannica article: • The average life expectancy
in Classical Greece was 28. However, Socrates lived
to 70, Plato to 80, and Aristotle to 62.
• The average life expectancy
in Classical Rome was 28. But emperor Caesar Augustus
lived to 77, the poet Virgil to 89, and the physician
Galen to 71.
• In medieval England,
the average life expectancy was 33, but King Edward
I lived to 68, King Edward III lived to 65, and poet
Geoffrey Chaucer lived to 60.
• At the end of the 19th
century, the average life expectancy in the West
was 37, but Queen Victoria lived to 81, Franz Joseph
I of Austria lived to 86, and President Theodore
Roosevelt lived to 60. Discuss This ArticleHave something you'd like to say? Tell us what you think! Read and post comments for this article. Like this article? Read more! Browse our archive of 1,106 articles. Also, see our master index of all MedHunters articles! Find a JobChoose your career: MedHunters is the world's biggest healthcare job board. Our job directory has 18,005 jobs with 2,490 hospitals and other direct employers. We want you to find your next job on MedHunters. Need Help? Call us at 1-888-884-8242, email us at info@medhunters.com or sign up now. Have an article or story for MedHunters? Email us today at submissions@medhunters.com. |
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