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What was the average life expectancy for an American after the age of 5 in 1935? and now?
I have heard that when social security was established (1935) that the average life expectancy was 61, and that now we live much longer, thus bankrupting Social Security. (Mitch McConnell said this last Sunday). But I have also heard that if death in early childhood is eliminated, that our life expectancy is not so different - it is different but change in the death rate at birth skews the data. So, I seek data with sources. Who has it? P.S. I'm not interested in diatribe nor soliloquy on Social Security.
This first answer given just begs the question I've asked. I know that infant mortality rates were very high at the turn of the 19th to 20th century. It changed dramatically. But I need sources for 41 and for now. Otherwise, it is just speculation.
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- KiniLv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
That has affected Social Security, that and many other factors: women working, people working and living longer, bigger population of native and immigrants, dozens of social security benefits that were never created in 1935. Infant mortality has not improved all that much. The life expectancy was as you say, 61, thats why the retirement age was 65, to avoid paying people too many benefits, and now it is 78 for men 82 for women.
You have to look up some statistics from government websites for the rest of your question.
