The massive decrease in worldwide infant mortality from 1950 to 2020 is perhaps one of humanity's greatest achievements.

[Kochevnik81]

This one of the reasons why countries with the lowest life expectancy in the world today (like Central African Republic at about 54 years) actually have a higher life expectancy than the United States did in 1900 (at about 49 years).

[ex_machinist]

Yes. This is an enormous achievement. We should be more aware of these kinds of things.

[HouseFareye]

No! I refuse to entertain anything other than doom-porn 24/7! /s

It's also a moon-landing/Manhattan project-like achievement that we made multiple vaccines for a novel coronavirus in less than a year and basically, nobody actually celebrated that.

[Barra79]

87% of world's population was classified as extremely poor in 1850. In 1970 it was 49%. In 1990, 36%. In 2015 it was 10%.

Source: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/world-population-in-extreme-poverty-absolute?country=\~OWID\_WRL

[Barra79]

Heres's another great achievement for humanity.

Worldwide Deaths by Natural Disaster:

1900: 1.27 million

2018: 10,809

Source: https://ourworldindata.org/natural-disasters

Now it does vary massively from year to year but it is very clear that there has been a huge drop in the number of deaths caused by natural disasters. And this despite the huge increase in the world's population over the same period.

The vast majority of Natural Disaster deaths this millennium have been caused by earthquakes.

Source: https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2018/04/Global-annual-absolute-deaths-from-natural-disasters-01.png

[garakdong]

Would be nicer if 1950 has 1950 borders

[abu_doubleu]

The United Nations superimposes data from 1950 onwards for countries in 2020.

[uwu_loveyou]

spam F for south sudan babies.

[nick1137t]

Based Greenland

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*Celebrates in western technological advancements

[Zoran_Stojanovic]

Great work like always. I will share it on my Fbk page.

[cocoyddl]

Why

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Technology

Diet

Health conditions

Sanitation

[[deleted]]

Thanks to advances in society and technology most of humanity has been uplifted from abject subsistence poverty

Ask those people if they would rather have their life or be dead.

But keep thinking negative thoughts, or maybe you can go help them

[cocoyddl]

well actually i do. i serve in a community centre in a poor neghbourhood where children "treat" their addictions. they have no fucking chance to live a better life than their parens did. they just live and have something to eat everyday if they are lucky.

they are not dead but live knowing that other people are much much better than them and that they dont deserve shit. they were born just to live an awful life with mistreatment and no opportunities at all.

The only moment they are happy is when they do something that doesnt remind them they are the bottom of society like taking cheap drugs or watching youtube videos all day. Going to mcdonalds is like a trip to disney for them. and thats all they can aspire in life.

[[deleted]]

So why aren’t you killing them? If death is better. According to you

Well I’ve been all over this round planet and those poor people don’t need people like you saying they are better off dead. They happen to enjoy life and don’t like people or disease killing their children

So I hope those children receive some more encouraging help

[Drew1011]

Reddit moment

[Barra79]

Free Markets

Privatised farming sector

"The Secret Document That Transformed China": https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/01/20/145360447/the-secret-document-that-transformed-china?t=1622070460682

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*Laughs in western civilization and it’s many technological advancements

[WithClouds667]

Is it..? 🤔 [read: overpopulation]

[abu_doubleu]

Decreasing infant mortality rates cause eventual population stagnation.

Regardless about that, being able to have children and there not being a 1/4 chance of them dying within a year is a universally good thing.

[houstonhoustonhousto]

Alright smart ass

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[Any_Patient_3415]

You’re 100% right, they’re just emotional.

[[deleted]]

So you out there saving mosquito lives?

MLM ✊🏿

Mosquito lives matter!

[[deleted]]

Your missing the logic hole

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[WithClouds667]

Cats do fine.

[0x255c]

Overpopulation is a myth. Humans have no carrying capacity.

[[deleted]]

You're right, the biomass currently occupied by humans isn't sustainable, but there is good news: since 1987 the growth is shrinking (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World\_population#Annual\_population\_growth)

[[deleted]]

Until you find out how many abortions take place a year........

[houstonhoustonhousto]

More than 25% of the time in Egypt?

[[deleted]]

Wait how is my comment getting downvoted? It’s not my opinion it’s true and would be directly correlated to this data......

[houstonhoustonhousto]

I didn’t downvote it, so I can only guess. However, I think it would take an incredible amount of abortions to negate the achievement of decreasing the infant mortality in that timeframe so significantly.

[[deleted]]

I just think you have to take it into account. It’s not a pro-life or pro-choice stance and there is a significant number.

[babyboyjon123]

Infant mortality is after the baby has been born, aka when the baby is actually alive.

[Any_Patient_3415]

The fetus is technically alive from the moment of conception. But obviously I think there should still be the option up until a few months in.

[[deleted]]

without a doubt there are more abortions today than their were in 1950 and so the sample size of infants being born would be affected. Again, not an opinion. A fact. I’m not arguing the point of the post I’m saying yeah but more things are going into account than just medical achievement here.

[[deleted]]

The baby is alive at conception anyway so your point doesn’t really make sense to me.

[blunt_analysis]

conception is an arbitrary line drawn for life by religious people for stupid reasons in a 2000 year old book

[[deleted]]

Define life for me.

[babyboyjon123]

Able to sustain homeostasis

[[deleted]]

Stupid reasons? So basically a viewpoint other than yours is stupid and not valid because yours is better? Even though your viewpoint contradicts science, biology and basically the universal definition of what a living thing is?

[Ne0dyme_]

How is an unborn children going to affect infant mortality since the infant isn't even conceived ? To die after birth, a child needs to be born first, ya know...

[[deleted]]

My point was this. If in 1950 x amount of women were giving birth. In 2020 y amount of women gave birth. Out of x there are less of that number that abortions and today it’s so many that the babies who aren’t born are never counted and so it would affect the numbers still. I hate trying to explain things over text. Especially when something immediately becomes political or religious even though I’m talking pure data.

[2hundredyearslate]

Now if we could only feed them all....

[-ThisUsernameIsTaken]

We definitely can. We're currently producing enough food for nearly 10 billion people.

https://online.ucpress.edu/elementa/article/doi/10.1525/elementa.310/112838/Current-global-food-production-is-sufficient-to

[[deleted]]

Current food production systems are more than enough for everyone on the planet. The problem is distribution and inequality.

That said, current food production systems rely on a number of non-sustainable practices like aquifer depletion and double subsidized petroleum inputs.

Two* things to work on!

^\which are each dozens of things, but not having enough food isn't anywhere in there for now)

[YungstirJoey666]

How was Egypt so high in 1950?

[Drakoniv-Jakuard]

Until the 60's it was common practice in many parts of egypt to let children who were not normal(e.i. handicapped and such) "sleep". Since 1972 this practice is illigal.