Born ThenLife in the 1930s
Be born somewhere between 1930 and 1939, weighted by real births, and live five lives from that year on.
The numbers
The world had about 2.2 billion people, and about 0.77 billion babies were born in the 1930s. A child born then could expect, on world average, about 41 years of life; 30% of children died before turning five. Women had about 5.3 children each. Roughly 49% of adults could read, and 28% of people lived in towns and cities. The places with the most births were China (25%), India (20%), Russia (4%), USA (3%), 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
- Third plague pandemic 1855–1930
- Korea under Japanese rule 1910–1945
- Great Migration of Black Americans 1916–1970
- Great Depression 1929–1939
- Dust Bowl 1930–1939
- Holodomor 1932–1933
- Italian invasion and occupation of Ethiopia 1935–1941
- Great Purge 1936–1938
- Spanish Civil War 1936–1939
- Second Sino-Japanese War 1937–1945
- World War II on the Eastern Front 1939–1945
- World War II in Western Europe 1939–1945
- World War II for the United States, Canada and Australia 1939–1945