From: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK62591/#:~:text=On%20average%20across%20all%20population,of%201.3%20years%20per%20decade https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

From: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK62591/#:~:text=On%20average%20across%20all%20population,of%201.3%20years%20per%20decade https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK62591/#:~:text=On%20av.... > On average across all population subgroups, people who survived to age 50 were expected to live over 8 years longer in 2000 than in 1940, corresponding to an increase in e50 from 23 years in 1940 to 31.3 years in 2006, or an average rise of 1.3 years per decade. An 8 year increase in life expectancy at age 50 (from 73 to 81.3) seems like a pretty large increase over the span of 60 years. I’d be more interested to know what the change in healthspan is, though. Living longer is less interesting to me than living longer in good health without worsening pain and disability.