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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Those low life expectancies are typically due to high infant deaths. Once you are like 10 or so, the life expectancy is much higher, and more informative. The life expectancy at birth is in many cases a bit misleading.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

That's fair. It was just my understanding that one of the leading causes to death was that the teeth started to rot away. I clearly need to brush up on my human history a bit!