(June 4, 2011 at 3:33 pm)eric209 Wrote: The adult life expectancy was 35. That only counted people that made it to adulthood and that number was not skewed by child death rates.
Diffidus:
OK, I got my estimate from Figure 3: http://eh.net/XIIICongress/Papers/Koepke.pdf which could be wrong.
I guess there must be a certain uncertainty in this estimate and I am not an expert. I don't think the extra 10 years would make that much difference to the main points however.