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The Deadliest Year of Your Life

Which year of your life is the most dangerous? For many people, it’s not old age but infancy. Where you're born can dramatically change your chances of survival, and millions of child deaths are still

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Technically your chances of dying on the first year are already 0%... or 100% if you somehow reading this from the afterlife
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This feels like John Green had something to do with it, and that's a compliment
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My life just keeps getting worse, so right now and exactly "right now" in the future.
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@3thenet From YouTube ↗ 21 Jun 2026 75
"In many high income countries..."
Picks the high income country with the worst infant mortality rates
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Rest in peace for those kids who lost there lives before they could enjoy it
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"oh damn"
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I disagree. The deadliest year of my life will be the year I die.
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i liked the different animation style for that Eart spin
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The average life expectancy is about 79 years, so if you reach your 80th birthday you've outlived the average person.
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Shootout to the Green brothers and nerdfighteria in general for the amazing work on the Maternal Center of Excellence in Sierra Leone, helping to reduce this risk in a one of the places that is most needed!
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I’m in my thirties and now I am retroactively worried for myself as a baby.
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I thought it said ‘which birthdate is the most deadliest’ for some reason and I really got worried for a second
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@CraigCholar From YouTube ↗ 21 Jun 2026 380
I'm almost 70. Five years ago I was feeling great, excercising, lost 40 pounds, ate right, and life was good. Now I feel like crap everyday due to chronic pain from a so-far undiagnosed mystery illness that the local doctors can't figure out. "You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone" -Joni MItchell
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@thod-thod From YouTube ↗ 21 Jun 2026 32
Before modern healthcare half of people made it to adulthood. 1/14 not making it is awful, but we’ve come so far
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@MBAR145 From YouTube ↗ 21 Jun 2026 742
The number... its everywhere..
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@kubok3596 From YouTube ↗ 21 Jun 2026 768
Can confirm. From what I've been told, I had the umbilical cord tied around my neck to the point I started changing colors.
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@impact3457 From YouTube ↗ 21 Jun 2026 1500
idk man the next year is always worse than the last lately
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Obviously the deadliest year is the last, because that‘s when you actually die
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@DaHaiZhu From YouTube ↗ 21 Jun 2026 765
"If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age." - George Burns
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@highlord2841 From YouTube ↗ 21 Jun 2026 7300
The last year