A recent study has found that the increase in a person's average lifespan, i.e. life expectancy, has slowed down and today's children have a very low probability of living up to 100 years.

A recent study has found that the increase in the average lifespan of a person, i.e. life expectancy, has slowed down and today's children are extremely unlikely to live to be 100 years old. The analysis is based on three decades of life expectancy data from ten countries - Australia, France, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States. The study has been published in the journal Nature Aging.

According to the study, girls born in 2019 have only a 5.1% chance of living to 100 years, while for boys this probability is only 1.8%. The study used data from 1990 to 2019 so that the distorting effect of the Covid-19 pandemic is not taken into account. S. J. Olshansky, co-author of the study and an epidemiologist at the University of Illinois, Chicago, says that it is impossible to extend the limits of human life too much. If you live long enough, you are exposed to the biological process of aging.

Why the increase in life expectancy is not sustainable

Despite the public health and medical advances made in the 20th century that increased human life expectancy by about 3 years per decade, experts believe this rate is no longer sustainable. Olshansky and other experts argue that this improvement is no longer occurring at the same pace as before.

What do experts say?

Olshansky says that we waited 30 years to test our theory. Now we have proved that the era of rapid increase in life expectancy is over, as we had predicted. Life expectancy is still increasing, but the rate has slowed down considerably compared to previous decades.

The study

also found that the increase in life expectancy has slowed down in the last decade compared to the decade of 1990-2000. Although people are still living longer, but not at the same pace as before. In particular, the rate of increase in life expectancy has decreased by less than two years per decade in every population except Hong Kong and South Korea. This research shows that the game of long life has now become like preventing one disease and then getting another. According to experts, with increasing age, many diseases arise in the body, which gradually affect life expectancy.

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