Born ThenLife in the 1900s
Be born somewhere between 1900 and 1909, weighted by real births, and live five lives from that year on.
The numbers
The world had about 1.7 billion people, and about 0.67 billion babies were born in the 1900s. A child born then could expect, on world average, about 34 years of life; 40% of children died before turning five. Women had about 5.6 children each. Roughly 46% of adults could read, and 25% 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
- 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
- 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
- Russo-Japanese War 1904–1905
- Herero and Nama genocide 1904–1908
- Maji Maji Rebellion 1905–1907