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[–] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Yet 20 million Chinese had to die to achieve that life expectancy.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago*

    Are you blaming the deaths from Imperial Japan's invasion and genocide on China?

    Or are you referring to the failure of the Great Leap Forward? You can see the latter on the graph, it's the one time the growth in life expectancy briefly paused before continuing its overwhelmingly upward trend

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