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If lifespans increases then the population will still grow for some time. And it's increased steadily for the past 70 years.
by JoeAltmaier 5y ago
If lifespans increases then the population will still grow for some time. And it's increased steadily for the past 70 years.
- manojlds 5y agoRural India wasn't affected at all by covid, and main period was April-May 2021.
- JoeAltmaier 5y agoI was just making a pedantic statistical observation. E.g. if people lived for 01000 years then even a tiny amount of births and population still increases. If people live forever, population grows forever. For every increment in lifespan, population grows until death rate matches whatever birth rate has been achieved.
- random314 5y agoThis is 100% false https://api.nationalgeographic.com/distribution/public/amp/science/article/see-how-rural-india-has-been-overrun-by-the-pandemics-second-wave https://api.nationalgeographic.com/distribution/public/amp/s...
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- lostlogin 5y agoThat’s not what I have read at all. Rural India seems to have less healthcare, more poverty and plenty of covid in the reports I have read. Limited testing has reduced its visibility, but there have been some really dark news reports on how rural India is faring. https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-reports-daily-rise-coronavirus-cases-257299-2021-05-22/ https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-reports-daily-rise...
- stefan_ 5y agoIt's affected by Covid like the poor parts of Africa are: there are like ten other, more basic things to worry about before you ever get to Covid.
- gizmo686 5y agoAverage lifespan has increased because of changes on the low end. Fewer people are dying young. There has been very little movement on the upper end of lifespan. The current trend of improvement has a natural wall at about 100-110 average lifespan. Having said that, I suspect that once we crack aging, we may blow past the current limit and see a relativly sudden jump in lifespan
- f6v 5y agoCancer therapies might result in significant gains. We already see CAR T to be very effective. Hopefully we’ll finally crack Alzheimer’s and the likes as well.
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoYeah. Living longer, but spending more of the time senile is... not exactly a win.
- conjecTech 5y agoEven if lifespans don't increase the population will probably continue to expand for about 25 years since the cohorts already born are larger than they ones they are replacing. Population only plateaus once we've been at replacement rate for the same number of years as mean age of mothers at birth.