Brief Comments on Chinese Life Expectancy Under Mao Zedong
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Communists, and tankies in particular, love to repeat the claim that China’s life expectancy l drastically improved under Mao. Below is an example that I found on Twitter. Occasionally they’ll also reference a paper by Kimberly Singer Babiarz et al. The paper claims that “China's growth in life expectancy at birth from 35–40 years in 1949 to 65.5 years in 1980 is among the most rapid sustained increases in documented global history.” But I have a big problem with this. My contention can be summarized in the form of:
Brief Comments on Chinese Life Expectancy Under Mao Zedong
Brief Comments on Chinese Life Expectancy…
Brief Comments on Chinese Life Expectancy Under Mao Zedong
Communists, and tankies in particular, love to repeat the claim that China’s life expectancy l drastically improved under Mao. Below is an example that I found on Twitter. Occasionally they’ll also reference a paper by Kimberly Singer Babiarz et al. The paper claims that “China's growth in life expectancy at birth from 35–40 years in 1949 to 65.5 years in 1980 is among the most rapid sustained increases in documented global history.” But I have a big problem with this. My contention can be summarized in the form of: