Under 44? Get ready to live forever!
A look at the latest UK life expectancy at 65 statistics - annual increase has been growing since 1960
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.Resources
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Secrets of the Healthiest, Sharpest Centenarians - by Nir Barzilai
Event about latest research and innovation in ageing organized by OBN (FREE)
Data to understand the big global problems and research that helps to make progress against them
Non-profit society created for people who want to live a longer and healthier life
Scientific society which support research for understanding of ageing process
Report launch: The longevity of sporting legends
10-Jun-2021Online event about the impact of professional sport on longevity organized by International Longevity Centre UK.
Online event about healthy ageing and the opportunities of longevity organized by University of Oxford. (FREE)
Fascinating data visualisation of life expectancy for 200 countries over 200 years
Life Expectancy Blog Posts
09-Sep-2015
03-Nov-2014
NICE will have to approve all one-off interventions as life expectancy increases
What to do when quality-adjusted life years could mean many, many years?
21-Oct-2014
Classic exponential growth in age distribution of older UK citizens
1 in 50 people are over 85 today - that's 20x the percentage who reached that age in 1881
03-May-2013
National Geographic get it wrong - this baby will live forever
People who are already middle-aged could make it to 120 - by the time today's baby's get that old they'll still be young
Recent News
High optimism associated with longevity and healthy aging across diverse groups
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health - 08-Jun-2022
Positive physiological factor extends life expectancy of women beyond 90
Read more...Healthy lifestyle practices boosted 6 years of life for healthy 40-year-olds
SciTechDaily - 07-Jun-2022
Lifestyle improvements- a positive impact on health despite chronic health conditions and older age
Read more...Poor women in England are dying younger, reveals a life expectancy report
The Guardian - 17-Apr-2022
Female life expectancy in poorest areas was 7.7 years lower than richest areas of England
Read more...Between 1993 and 2011, most increase in life expectancy was disease free years
Science Daily - 15-Mar-2022
Exception was for people with a cognitive impairment, study by Newcastle University shows
Read more...Kane Tanaka, world's oldest person from Japan celebrates her 119th birthday
Metro - 03-Jan-2022
This supercentenarian is already aiming to live to 120 years
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