Born ThenLife in the 1890s
Be born somewhere between 1890 and 1899, weighted by real births, and live five lives from that year on.
The numbers
The world had about 1.6 billion people, and about 0.63 billion babies were born in the 1890s. A child born then could expect, on world average, about 33 years of life; 42% of children died before turning five. Women had about 5.7 children each. Roughly 34% of adults could read, and 22% of people lived in towns and cities. The places with the most births were China (24%), India (20%), Russia (5%), USA (4%), 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
- British emigration to the colonies and America 1815–1913
- 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
- Polish emigration "za chlebem" 1870–1913
- Reforms of King Chulalongkorn 1874–1910
- Great Italian emigration 1880–1913
- Pogroms in the Russian Empire 1881–1906
- Atrocities in the Congo Free State 1885–1908
- Great Ethiopian Famine 1888–1892
- African rinderpest epizootic 1888–1897
- 1889–1890 flu pandemic ("Russian flu") 1889–1890
- Russian famine of 1891–1892 1891–1892
- Panic of 1893 1893–1897
- First Sino-Japanese War 1894–1895
- Hamidian massacres 1894–1896
- First Italo-Ethiopian War 1895–1896
- Spanish–American War 1898
- Sixth cholera pandemic 1899–1923
- Boxer Rebellion 1899–1901
- Indian famine of 1899–1900 1899–1900
- Philippine–American War 1899–1902
- Thousand Days' War 1899–1902
- Second Boer War 1899–1902