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Life Expectancy Trends 2024

October 16 , 2024 17 hrs 0 min 69 0

According to new research, the humanity may have hit the upper limit of life expectancy.
Despite medical advances, breakthroughs in genetic research, and an increasing number of people reaching the age of 100.
But overall life expectancy has not significantly increased.
Life expectancy measures the average number of years a newborn can expect to live.
While women continue to live longer than men, the rate of life expectancy improvement has slowed.
In the 1990s, life expectancy rose by an average of 2.5 years per decade.
Between 1990 and 2019, the increase in life expectancy was only 6.5 years in the longest-living countries.
By the 2010s, that rate had dropped to 1.5 years per decade—and almost zero in the U.S.
The chances of reaching 100 years old are still quite low—5.3% for girls and 1.8% for boys born in these regions.