The USA has the world's largest gap between lifespan and healthy years
IFLScience - 17-Dec-2024Women face a bigger healthspan gap than men due to specific health issues
Life Expectancy
News and resources on current life expectancy - lets see how it changes over time
Congratulations - you've survived another year... unfortunately your risk of dying goes up another 9% next year, and every year after that - that's why at the moment you can't beat the exponential risk of death.Definition: period life expectancy = how long a new-born would live if today's death rates did not change. They should improve over time therefore this is not a prediction of how long a child born today will live for.
REMEMBER: most improvement in life expectancy over the last century has been due to reduced child mortality and combatting infectious diseases, rather than tacking ageing itself. Here's an interesting quote from New Methuselahs: "between 1860 and 1960, life expectancy at birth in the United States increased by 31 years, but the life expectancy for an adult who reached the age of 60 increased by only 1 year during that century. In other words, a century ago, those who made it to 60 lived roughly as long as we do, but the odds of making it to 60 were much worse."
Life Expectancy News
Dementia death rates rise in the UK, worsening due to ageing population
Independent - 10-Dec-2024CVD remains number 1 when heart disease and cerebrovascular diseases are combined
Superagers and stem cells: cracking the code of longevity
Newsweek - 10-Dec-2024How reprogrammed cells from centenarians could revolutionize ageing and disease research
Blackpool tops UK list for lowest male life expectancy
Sky News - 04-Dec-2024Health disparities reveal stark north-south divide and challenges in coastal towns
Life Expectancy Resources
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The Blue Zones Kitchen
Book from the Blue Zone series with 100 Recipes to Live to 100 written by Dan Buettner
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The Secret to Living to 100+? The Blue Zone [Infographic]
Secrets to Living Longer: What We Can Learn from Blue Zones
Blue Zones, LLC
A company exploring the reasons behind longevity of people living in five different geographical locations
The Blue Zones Solution: Eating and Living Like the World’s Healthiest People
The Blue Zones Solution is the ultimate blueprint for a healthy, happy life written by Dan Buettner
The Blue Zones
Book from the Blue Zone series with lessons for living longer from the people who've lived the longest written by Dan Buettner
The Blue Zones of Happiness
Book from the Blue Zone series with lessons from the world's happiest people written by Dan Buettner
12-Jul-2024
Are Wimbledon champions really getting older?
Has this century seen extraordinarily long-lived Wimbledon champions, or are winners over 30 years of age the new normal?
23-May-2024
If you stopped ageing today, how long would you live?
Not as long as you might think. For radical life extension we need to reverse ageing.
28-Jun-2023
Exponential Increase in Mortality and Diseases
The data and science behind the exponential growth in mortality with age
13-Feb-2023
Can love defeat death?
Health and life expectancy are affected by love, sex and marriage
Topics covered in this page:
Blue Zones, Centenarians, Life Expectancy, Longevity Escape Velocity, Old Age
