Life expectancy is basically flat for people over 80.
Lots fewer babies are dying, a good amount of young adults are staying alive, some middle age people are living longer, and a handful of older folks are too.
But once you get to 80, 90, your life expectancy is within a few years of where it would have been 100 years ago.
There’s absolutely no evidence that medical technology has made any impact on the maximum age humans can live.
And any impact it’s had on the raw numbers making it past 100 are utterly dwarfed by the kind of factors affecting global population. Like tiny, tiny percents of the population are in this “ nouveau old”.
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Life expectancy is basically flat for people over 80.
Lots fewer babies are dying, a good amount of young adults are staying alive, some middle age people are living longer, and a handful of older folks are too.
But once you get to 80, 90, your life expectancy is within a few years of where it would have been 100 years ago.
There’s absolutely no evidence that medical technology has made any impact on the maximum age humans can live.
And any impact it’s had on the raw numbers making it past 100 are utterly dwarfed by the kind of factors affecting global population. Like tiny, tiny percents of the population are in this “ nouveau old”.