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Where do you get that information? I realize that the reduction of infant mortality has been a major factor in the change in expected lifespan, but there have a
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Where do you get that information? I realize that the reduction of infant mortality has been a major factor in the change in expected lifespan, but there have also been gains in expected remaining lifespan at 65.
For example, this study reported on in 2018:
The researchers looked at birth and death data for people above age 65 from 1960-2010. They found that the average age of death in those who live to be older than 65 increased by three years in every 25-year period, which means that people can expect to live about six years longer than their grandparents, on average.
Furthermore, this trend continued at a relatively stable pace over the entire 50-year period and in all 20 countries that they analyzed. Factors like medical breakthroughs caused minor fluctuations in how quickly lifespans increased, but these variations averaged out over time
https://news.stanford.edu/2018/11/06/lifespan-increasing-people-live-65/ https://news.stanford.edu/2018/11/06/lifespan-increasing-peo...