begbysback wrote: » Pretty much proves that your health is your wealth
Avatar MIA wrote: » Or the opposite, your wealth is your health
Mutant z wrote: » There's still people alive today who were born in the earlier part of the last century so that data isn't all that impressive especially when the next century is little more than 80 years away from now which isn't an unusual age to live up to at all in fact it's become quite the norm tbh.
kneemos wrote: » It was about 72 when I was a young fella.
wakka12 wrote: » Likely much longer than that too, health care will have improved unrecognisably by the time children born today are elderly, those nation averages are also brought down by male death rate. A woman with a healthy lifestyle today will easily make it to her 90's Imagine healthcare in 2100 compared to today
Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: » Can anybody explain how they work this out?
ToddyDoody wrote: » By the end of this century a person's personality will be downloadable to enjoy post death.
Harry Palmr wrote: » Average life expectancy now plus 81 years! Then again looking into the future is rarely accurate Welcome to 2019
Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: » Average expectancy now (at birth) is what they come out with, it’s not an input. I once saw a report that said because life expectancy was increasing there were far more octogenarians than previously, this contrasted (the report continued) with the situation 80 years ago when these people were born when the average life expectancy was 60. Surely though since the people born 80 years ago were the very people contributing to the octogenarian boom, the then estimate of their life expectancy was too low. It was based on what people were living to then rather than what actually happened. I therefore assume the presumed life expectancy of the new borns is based on what people born eighty years ago are achieving now, with some modifications perhaps on known medical advances. Not future ones, which are unknownable. However although people tend to be optimistic about future medicine there’s the thorny problem of anti biotic resistance which might make these calculations moot.
kneemos wrote: » Life expectancy at the moment is eighty plus years,based on deaths. Nothing more complex than that.
Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: » If it’s based on present day deaths, then thats the life expectancy of people born 80 years ago, who were told then they had only a life expectancy of 60 years. So in reality new borns will probably live much longer than this figure, unless there’s a medical catastrophe.
kneemos wrote: » No it's the current life expectancy.