Life expectancy actually doubled under Mao, it’s not correct to say it got worse in and of itself. Mao made a ton of mistakes, famously so, but there were good things from it.
it’s important to look at these kinds of numbers in context, the average life expectancy for the vast majority of Mao’s rule was around 30, only going up to 50-60 in the last few years, still lagging behind even the farther east soviet provinces
I mean ya, but it’s not that impressive, at that point it basically meant that the Chinese government stopped doing stuff that actively caused early death towards the very end of Mao’s life
Life expectancy actually doubled under Mao, it’s not correct to say it got worse in and of itself. Mao made a ton of mistakes, famously so, but there were good things from it.
it’s important to look at these kinds of numbers in context, the average life expectancy for the vast majority of Mao’s rule was around 30, only going up to 50-60 in the last few years, still lagging behind even the farther east soviet provinces
Sure. It still happened.
I mean ya, but it’s not that impressive, at that point it basically meant that the Chinese government stopped doing stuff that actively caused early death towards the very end of Mao’s life