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Life Expectancy Trends 2024
October 16 , 2024
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- 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.
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