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submitted 5 months ago by cenarius871@sh.itjust.works to c/dataisbeautiful@lemmy.ml

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[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 months ago (6 children)

What happened in China in 1960? O.o

[–] TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

That was the middle of Mao Zedong's disastrous Great Leap Forward initiative, which due to mismanagement saw vast numbers of people starve to death.

[–] cenarius871@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

But even with that disaster Mao still raised life expectancy more than the world average from 1955 to 1976(when he died).

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