Exponential Increase in Mortality and Diseases
The data and science behind the exponential growth in mortality with age
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
World's oldest man credits longevity to pure luck
The Guardian - 05-Apr-2024
John is right that supercentenarians tend to have a long life irrespective of their lifestyle
Read more...Juan Vicente Perez, the world's oldest man, dies at 114 in Venezuela
Sky News - 04-Apr-2024
The supercentenarian leaves behind a legacy of hard work, family, and faith
Read more...US and UK adults experience higher midlife death rates compared to other nations
Oxford Population Health - 21-Mar-2024
Alarming trends in preventable deaths like drug overdoses, accidents, and suicides
Read more...Ray Kurzweil brings his prediction of the technological singularity forward to 2029
Independent - 13-Mar-2024
Also predicts a new era of hybrid humans and the potential to reverse aging within the next five years
Read more...Life Expectancy Resources
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The Longevity Imperative
How to Build a Healthier and More Productive Society to Support Our Longer Lives, written by Andrew Scott
Human Mortality Database (HMD)
World´s leading scientific data resource on mortality in developed countries
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
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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
28-Jun-2023
13-Feb-2023
Can love defeat death?
Health and life expectancy are affected by love, sex and marriage
09-Sep-2015
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
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?
