but because they are too low.

According to those numbers, Chinese must be living in the heaven before 1959. Only 6.6 per thousand in 1958? That must be the world record at the time - being better than Japan, US, EU in the 21st century.

Now I understand why CCP were both stupid and evil. They started the great leap forward movement when Chinese were already enjoying the best lives in the world. They starved Chinese so that they could fight another bloody civil war....

I have no interest to keep analyzing. Here is a link of world death rate by CIA. Go figure it out yourself how happy Chinese must have been.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2066rank.html