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Almost all the gains in life expectancy are due to less children dying. Life expectancy for sixty year olds has increased by a single digit number of years in t
by Amezarak 7y ago
Almost all the gains in life expectancy are due to less children dying. Life expectancy for sixty year olds has increased by a single digit number of years in the past century and is stagnating or declining in most countries.
The argument that we have to work longer because of increased life expectancy is absolutely a rip-off. People who survived to retirement are not living much longer than they were a hundred years ago.
- sokoloff 7y agoI see different data for France at least. https://www.ined.fr/en/everything_about_population/data/france/deaths-causes-mortality/life-expectancy/ https://www.ined.fr/en/everything_about_population/data/fran... Seems that life expectancy at age 65 has increased by about 1 year (a little over 5%) from 2008 to 2018. That 5% increase in pension coverage has to come from somewhere. It will come from reduced benefits, increased pension taxes for the working, and/or increased working times for the working. There does appear to be some natural limit, but it does not seem that almost all gains are from a reduction in childhood mortality.