The life expectancy goes up as things improve like coming up with life saving medicines. It doesn't mean that a man born in 1880 would on average be dead by 1938. And you honestly don't have a clue about life over here. I'm spending the night in Astana, Kazakhstan, the country's capital. It puts most Western cities to shame. Amazing place and half the cost of the States. Speaking of which, heading home from here this weekend.Talk about skewing numbers. What does walking through a graveyard have to do with the question when compared to numbers courtesy of the US Census Bureau? . The AVERAGE life expectancy in 1930 according to official numbers was 58. So tell me, what is the average life expectancy of a person living in Bezerkistan or wherever the hell it is you are now? Then again where you are now the local warlord decides how long you'll live.