In the US case, it is widely assumed that the financial crisis caused. the recession, and that the causes of the financial crisis and the real estate crisis were intertwined. The Irish. example provides a possible alternative chain of economic crises (e.g., financial crises and economic recession)
The table which we usually see in the newspaper is the table of life expectancy at birth. That means that the average length of life for all babies born for example in 1950 in the United States will probably be 68 years. The similar average for 1850 was approximately 35 years.
They didn't. Most people died in their first 2-3 years. One should also note that the biological capacity for life expectancy today is the same as ancient humans: 120 years. That's about the limit of the homo sapiens. That means that there were always people living over 100 years, in ancient, medieval and modern times in every region of the world.