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Re:I had a health crisis in France by candiodari on Sunday November 20, 2016 @09:27AM (#12998977)
It doesn't. Deaths from <5 year olds are explicitly excluded from life expectancy statistics. You'll find them under infant mortality.
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Re:I had a health crisis in France by Retric on Sunday November 20, 2016 @09:53AM (#12999095)
Not usually, if you do that then:

Analysis of the mid-Victorian period in the U.K. reveals that life expectancy at age 5 was as good or better than exists today https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2672390/ Digging into it you find women have a shorter life expectancy and men had a longer one.

PS: Using birth or at age 70 modern England has longer lifespans.

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