Born ThenLife in the 1800s
Be born somewhere between 1800 and 1809, weighted by real births, and live five lives from that year on.
The numbers
The world had about 1.0 billion people, and about 0.40 billion babies were born in the 1800s. A child born then could expect, on world average, about 31 years of life; 44% of children died before turning five. Women had about 5.9 children each. Roughly 22% of adults could read, and 17% of people lived in towns and cities. The places with the most births were China (32%), India (21%), Russia (4%), Bangladesh (2%), Japan (2%).
From Gapminder and the World Bank, averaged over the world and weighted by births; before 1950 most are estimates. How it works
What happened
- Atlantic slave trade, final decades 1800–1866
- Slavery in the United States 1800–1865
- Slavery in Brazil 1800–1888
- Serfdom in the Russian Empire 1800–1861
- Napoleonic Wars 1803–1815
- Fulani War and the Sokoto Caliphate 1804–1808
- Spanish American wars of independence 1808–1826