Born ThenLife in the 1910s
Be born somewhere between 1910 and 1919, weighted by real births, and live five lives from that year on.
The numbers
The world had about 1.8 billion people, and about 0.69 billion babies were born in the 1910s. A child born then could expect, on world average, about 34 years of life; 36% of children died before turning five. Women had about 5.3 children each. Roughly 47% of adults could read, and 27% of people lived in towns and cities. The places with the most births were China (25%), India (19%), Russia (5%), USA (4%), Indonesia (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
- Sixth cholera pandemic 1899–1923
- Korea under Japanese rule 1910–1945
- Mexican Revolution 1910–1920
- Balkan Wars 1912–1913
- World War I in Europe 1914–1918
- World War I in the Ottoman Empire 1914–1918
- World War I for the United States, Canada and Australia 1914–1918
- Armenian genocide 1915–1917
- Great Migration of Black Americans 1916–1970
- Russian Revolution and Civil War 1917–1922
- 1918 influenza pandemic 1918–1920
- Turkish War of Independence and population exchange 1919–1923
- Irish War of Independence and Civil War 1919–1923