Global life expectancy on the rise: insights from the world population prospects report
Live Forever Club - 14-Jul-2024UN's World Population Prospects 2024 shows recovery to better than pre-covid life expectancy
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.
Life Expectancy News
Healthy lifestyles reduce mortality risk in people with or without multimorbidity
Live Forever Club - 07-Jun-2024Benefits are seen with high physical activity, healthy diets, and non-smoking
Running a mile under 4 minutes is linked to longer and healthier life
Live Forever Club - 16-May-2024Such athletes lived an average of 4.7 years longer than the general population
Global life expectancy will increase by almost 5 years by 2050
Independent - 16-May-2024Study highlights a shift towards non-communicable diseases as the major concern
Life Expectancy Resources
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Human Mortality Database (HMD)
World´s leading scientific data resource on mortality in developed countries
The Longevity Pub Quiz Sandwich
14-May-2024
Pub quiz about ageing and longevity organised by University of Westminster (London, UK)
The Longevity Imperative
How to Build a Healthier and More Productive Society to Support Our Longer Lives, written by Andrew Scott
What is life expectancy?
Demographer Philip Cohen explains life expectancy with a simple example using real data
British Society for Research on Ageing (BSRA)
Scientific society which promotes and funds research into the biology of ageing
Behavior, Health, and Aging
Book that offers a stimulating array of multiple aspects of the aging process and of factors that affect it written by Stephen B. Manuck
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
