Born ThenLife in the 1920s
Be born somewhere between 1920 and 1929, weighted by real births, and live five lives from that year on.
The numbers
The world had about 2.0 billion people, and about 0.73 billion babies were born in the 1920s. A child born then could expect, on world average, about 37 years of life; 33% of children died before turning five. Women had about 5.5 children each. Roughly 48% of adults could read, and 28% of people lived in towns and cities. The places with the most births were China (25%), India (19%), Russia (5%), USA (4%), Japan (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
- Third plague pandemic 1855–1930
- Sixth cholera pandemic 1899–1923
- Korea under Japanese rule 1910–1945
- Mexican Revolution 1910–1920
- 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
- Great Depression 1929–1939