In other words, from approximately 20 years after India gained independence its life expectancy increased by 12. In 1950, China was at 40, in 1970 it was at 55. In approximately 20 years since the Communist revolution, life expectancy increased by 15.

"In 20 years, the historically developed ethnostate increased its life expectancy three (3) more years than a country which, to this day, lacks a common ethnicity or language and whose development has been uneven at best"

Wow, great work CCP, I bow before the Great Leaps Forward of Mao.

I think it’s relevant that India was starting from further back but i don’t think that’s the only thing that mattered

You thought it relevant enough to completely ignore it until it was pointed out, how sweet.

I’m licking any fucking boots, here, and i’m not about to overlook the evils of colonialism. I am dealing with the numbers.

You quite clearly are licking boots in trying to justify the horrific crimes of Mao and the CCP by playing some "Life expectancy went UP" game while ignoring contemporary trends and trying to play 'whataboutism' games with India using some dubious reading of life expectancy statistics to try to prove that Stalinist-style totalitarianism of the kind that even the Soviet Union had abandoned by that time was actually A Net Good(tm).

Both India and China came a long way from the start of the 20th century and it’s a little insulting to suggest they have not. Looking at the statista numbers again, the global average was an appalling 31 in 1900. India was an even more appalling 22, by comparison China was actually doing well at 32.

Would you kindly read aloud for the class what your own source says is the life expectancy of the two countries at 1900?

I also love how the argument goes from "Life expectancy went UP when the Communist Party came into power! Correlation is causation!" to "Well, they beat the average world life expectancy 40 years later!"

We're fucking done here, bootlicker.