cenarius871@sh.itjust.works to Data Is Beautiful@lemmy.mlEnglish · 4 months agoLife expectancy 1870-2021 China, Russia and World avarageourworldindata.orgexternal-linkmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
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minus-squarehemko@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoWhat happened in China in 1960? O.o
minus-squarecenarius871@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-24 months agoCentral planning mistakes produced too little food(cause they wanted to buy more machines to industrialize quicker) which were later corrected. Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NE.GDI.TOTL.ZS?end=2021&locations=CN&most_recent_value_desc=true&start=1960&view=chart&year=2020
minus-squareTallonMetroid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoThat was the middle of Mao Zedong’s disastrous Great Leap Forward initiative, which due to mismanagement saw vast numbers of people starve to death.
minus-squarecenarius871@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-24 months agoBut even with that disaster Mao still raised life expectancy more than the world average from 1955 to 1976(when he died).
minus-squareesc27@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoAfter nearly a year on lemmy, I’m guessing it was capitalism or maybe microsoft.
What happened in China in 1960? O.o
Central planning mistakes produced too little food(cause they wanted to buy more machines to industrialize quicker) which were later corrected.
Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NE.GDI.TOTL.ZS?end=2021&locations=CN&most_recent_value_desc=true&start=1960&view=chart&year=2020
That was the middle of Mao Zedong’s disastrous Great Leap Forward initiative, which due to mismanagement saw vast numbers of people starve to death.
But even with that disaster Mao still raised life expectancy more than the world average from 1955 to 1976(when he died).
After nearly a year on lemmy, I’m guessing it was capitalism or maybe microsoft.
I think it was Ubuntu snaps