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[–] Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This species has been around for 250,000 years; for 249,800 of those years, about half of children died before the age of 5.

About half of all children died as children. Which of course means half of all humans who have ever lived, died as children.

(The source is really John Green's book, Everything is Tuberculosis, this is just an interview with the author where he quotes that.)