Born ThenLife in the 1990s
Be born somewhere between 1990 and 1999, weighted by real births, and live five lives from that year on.
The numbers
The world had about 5.7 billion people, and about 1.33 billion babies were born in the 1990s. A child born then could expect, on world average, about 65 years of life; 8% of children died before turning five. Women had about 3.6 children each. Roughly 70% of adults could read, and 40% of people lived in towns and cities. The places with the most births were India (21%), China (15%), Pakistan (4%), Nigeria (4%), Indonesia (4%).
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
- Colombian armed conflict 1964–2016
- Migration to the Gulf 1973–2025
- China's reform and opening 1978–2015
- One-child policy 1980–2015
- HIV/AIDS epidemic in southern and eastern Africa 1985–2015
- Collapse of the Soviet Union 1991–1998
- Rwandan genocide 1994
- 1997 Asian financial crisis 1997–1999
- Second Congo War 1998–2003