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Life expectancy 1870-2021 China, Russia and World avarage (ourworldindata.org)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Do you think this life expectancy statistic https://www.statista.com/statistics/1041395/life-expectancy-russia-all-time/ is also not right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

That one looks right to me (or, “right” meaning consistently using period LEB) - it’s a little hard to compare because of the difference in granularity but it shows about a 20-year drop for WW2 which is what I would expect.

I edited my comment above; I think what’s happening is that the OP article is mixing different metrics for different parts of the chart. I think this one you’re sending is consistently using period LEB which is why the size of the dips is different.