Born ThenLife in the 1870s
Be born somewhere between 1870 and 1879, weighted by real births, and live five lives from that year on.
The numbers
The world had about 1.4 billion people, and about 0.55 billion babies were born in the 1870s. A child born then could expect, on world average, about 32 years of life; 42% of children died before turning five. Women had about 5.8 children each. Roughly 30% of adults could read, and 19% of people lived in towns and cities. The places with the most births were China (25%), India (19%), Russia (5%), USA (3%), Germany (3%).
From Gapminder and the World Bank, averaged over the world and weighted by births; before 1950 most are estimates. How it works
What happened
- Slavery in Brazil 1800–1888
- British emigration to the colonies and America 1815–1913
- Cultivation System in Java 1830–1870
- Indian indenture system 1834–1917
- German emigration to the Americas 1840–1893
- Chinese emigration from Guangdong and Fujian 1845–1913
- Irish emigration after the Famine 1852–1913
- Third plague pandemic 1855–1930
- French conquest of Vietnam 1858–1887
- Paraguayan War (War of the Triple Alliance) 1864–1870
- Meiji Restoration 1868–1889
- Polish emigration "za chlebem" 1870–1913
- Persian famine of 1870–1872 1870–1872
- Franco-Prussian War 1870–1871
- Long Depression 1873–1879
- Reforms of King Chulalongkorn 1874–1910
- Northern Chinese Famine 1876–1879
- Great Famine of 1876–1878 1876–1878
- Anglo-Zulu War 1879