Born ThenLife in the 1940s
Be born somewhere between 1940 and 1949, weighted by real births, and live five lives from that year on.
The numbers
The world had about 2.4 billion people, and about 0.81 billion babies were born in the 1940s. A child born then could expect, on world average, about 41 years of life; 27% of children died before turning five. Women had about 5 children each. Roughly 44% of adults could read, and 25% of people lived in towns and cities. The places with the most births were China (23%), India (19%), USA (4%), Indonesia (3%), 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
- Korea under Japanese rule 1910–1945
- Great Migration of Black Americans 1916–1970
- Italian invasion and occupation of Ethiopia 1935–1941
- 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
- The Holocaust 1941–1945
- World War II in Japan 1941–1945
- Japanese occupation of the Philippines 1941–1945
- Japanese occupation of Indonesia, Burma and Vietnam 1942–1945
- Bracero program and Mexican migration to the United States 1942–2007
- Bengal famine of 1943 1943–1944
- Indonesian War of Independence 1945–1949
- Chinese Civil War 1946–1949
- Partition of India 1947–1948
- Apartheid 1948–1994
- Division of Germany 1949–1990