Born ThenLife in the 1980s
Be born somewhere between 1980 and 1989, weighted by real births, and live five lives from that year on.
The numbers
The world had about 4.8 billion people, and about 1.32 billion babies were born in the 1980s. A child born then could expect, on world average, about 62 years of life; 10% of children died before turning five. Women had about 4.2 children each. Roughly 64% of adults could read, and 36% of people lived in towns and cities. The places with the most births were India (20%), China (18%), Indonesia (4%), Pakistan (3%), Bangladesh (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
- Bracero program and Mexican migration to the United States 1942–2007
- Apartheid 1948–1994
- Division of Germany 1949–1990
- Korean economic miracle 1962–1996
- Brazilian military dictatorship 1964–1985
- Colombian armed conflict 1964–2016
- Green Revolution in India 1966–1985
- Martial law under Marcos 1972–1986
- Migration to the Gulf 1973–2025
- Dirty War in Argentina 1976–1983
- Iranian Revolution 1978–1982
- China's reform and opening 1978–2015
- Soviet–Afghan War 1979–1989
- Iran–Iraq War 1980–1988
- One-child policy 1980–2015
- Ethiopian famine of 1983–85 1983–1985
- HIV/AIDS epidemic in southern and eastern Africa 1985–2015