Life Expectancy Slows in Wealthy Nations

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Wealthy nations might be reaching a life expectancy limit, study suggests — at least for now

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Researchers looked back on data from 1990 to 2019 in the eight countries with the longest-lived populations as well as the United States and Hong Kong .

Increases in life expectancy slowed in all of these populations, and the average proportions of women and men expected to survive to 100 were 5.1% and 1.8% .

When the authors modeled a scenario in which life expectancy reaches 110 , they found that this would require curing most major causes of death today .

Life expectancy in 2019 will be 89 years for women and 83 years for men, Olshansky said.

The authors note that lower- and middle-income countries may experience rapid rises in life expectancy this century , but these increases will largely come from public health benefits that have already happened in wealthier nations.

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