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Life Expectancy

Don't expect human life expectancy to grow much more, shows research

Humanity is hitting the upper limit of life expectancy, according to a new study. Advances in medical technology and genetic research not to mention larger numbers of people making it to age 100 are not not translating into marked jumps in lifespan overall, according to researchers who found shrinking longevity increases in countries with the longest-living populations. We have to recognise there's a limit and perhaps reassess assumptions about when people should retire and how much money they'll need to live out their lives, said S. Jay Olshansky, a University of Illinois-Chicago researcher who was lead author of the study published Monday by the journal Nature Aging. Mark Hayward, a University of Texas researcher not involved in the study, called it a valuable addition to the mortality literature. "We are reaching a plateau" in life expectancy, he agreed. It's always possible some breakthrough could push survival to greater heights, but we don't have that now, Hayward said. Wh

Don't expect human life expectancy to grow much more, shows research
Updated On : 08 Oct 2024 | 8:37 AM IST

Life expectancy in men could rise by a yr on cutting down smoking: Lancet

Cutting down smoking to five per cent of current rates by 2050 would increase life expectancy by a year among men and 0.2 years in women, according to recent global modelling studies published in The Lancet Public Health journal. The researchers found that based on current trends, smoking rates around the world could continue to reduce to 21 per cent in men and about four per cent in women by 2050. Along with improving life expectancy, accelerating efforts to eliminate tobacco smoking could avoid 876 million years of lives lost to death, researchers forming the Global Burden of Disease, Injuries and Risk Factors (GBD) Tobacco Forecasting Collaborators said. They also found that banning sales of cigarettes and other tobacco products could prevent 1.2 million lung cancer deaths across 185 countries by 2095. Of these deaths, nearly two-thirds would be averted in low- and middle-income countries, because they tend to have more younger populations compared to high-income ones, the author

Life expectancy in men could rise by a yr on cutting down smoking: Lancet
Updated On : 03 Oct 2024 | 8:31 AM IST

Covid-19: India lost 2.6 years' life expectancy between 2019 and 2020

The study found that the decline was more pronounced among females (3.1 years) compared to males (2.1 years)

Covid-19: India lost 2.6 years' life expectancy between 2019 and 2020
Updated On : 19 Jul 2024 | 11:29 PM IST

Covid-19 effect: Global healthy life expectancy slumps to 2012 level

According to WHO's latest report, global life expectancy and healthy life expectancy dropped to 2012 levels of 1.8 and 1.5 years, respectively, eradicating a decade of progress

Covid-19 effect: Global healthy life expectancy slumps to 2012 level
Updated On : 27 May 2024 | 4:17 PM IST

Global life expectancy up 6.2 years between 1990-2021, shows Lancet report

In India, the life expectancy has increased by eight years in the past three decades

Global life expectancy up 6.2 years between 1990-2021, shows Lancet report
Updated On : 04 Apr 2024 | 11:47 AM IST

Covid has cut life expectancy globally, reversing past progress: Lancet

Global life expectancy dropped by 1.6 years between 2019 and 2021, a sharp reversal from past improvements, according to a research published in The Lancet journal. One of the first to fully evaluate demographic trends in the context of the first two years of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, the study has published findings, which researchers said, could have implications for health systems, economies and societies around the world. The findings also included those of an ageing worldwide population. The study found that life expectancy declined in 84 per cent of countries and territories during this time. This demonstrated the "devastating potential impacts of novel pathogens", the researchers said. Places such as Mexico City, Peru and Bolivia experienced some of the largest drops, the study found. The researchers also found a marked increase in adult mortality rates globally during the pandemic in 2020 and 2021, reversing past decreasing trends. However, child mortality cont

Covid has cut life expectancy globally, reversing past progress: Lancet
Updated On : 12 Mar 2024 | 4:21 PM IST

US life expectancy rose in 2022, but remains below its pre-pandemic level

US life expectancy rose last year by more than a year but still isn't close to what it was before the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2022 rise was mainly due to the waning pandemic, Centres for Disease Control and Prevention researchers said on Wednesday. But even with the large increase, US life expectancy is only back to 77 years, 6 months about what it was two decades ago. Life expectancy is an estimate of the average number of years a baby born in a given year might expect to live, assuming the death rates at that time hold constant. The snapshot statistic is considered one of the most important measures of the health of the US population. The 2022 calculations released Wednesday are provisional, and could change a little as the math is finalized. For decades, US life expectancy rose a little nearly every year. But about a decade ago, the trend flattened and even declined some years a stall blamed largely on overdose deaths and suicides. Then came the coronavirus, which has killed

US life expectancy rose in 2022, but remains below its pre-pandemic level
Updated On : 29 Nov 2023 | 11:48 AM IST

Global population hits 8 bn: How it changes the world over next few decades

Much of the world's population growth has come in the last century as better living standards and health advancements extended life expectancy

Global population hits 8 bn: How it changes the world over next few decades
Updated On : 15 Nov 2022 | 11:28 PM IST

Story in charts: World nears 8 bn mark, India must focus on human capital

In 2026, the age group of 25 and 29 will have the highest number of people, and in 2036, India's largest population group will be in the late 30s

Story in charts: World nears 8 bn mark, India must focus on human capital
Updated On : 15 Nov 2022 | 12:55 AM IST

A narrow window of opportunity

Thailand and China are at risk of growing old before they grow rich; India must grow its GDP at 8-9 per cent or more to avoid that fate

A narrow window of opportunity
Updated On : 15 Nov 2022 | 12:31 AM IST

Pandemic caused prolonged decline in global life expectancy: Study

COVID-19 has caused a prolonged decline in life expectancy levels, leading to global mortality changes unprecedented in the last 70 years, according to a study. The researchers from the University of Oxford, UK, and Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Germany used data from 29 countries in Europe, as well as Chile and the US. The study, published on Monday in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, found that life expectancy in 2021 remained lower than expected across all 29 countries, had pre-pandemic trends continued. Previous global epidemics have seen fairly rapid "bounce backs" to life expectancy levels, the researchers said. However, the scale and magnitude of COVID-19, on mortality, confounds claims it has had no more impact than a flu-like illness, they said. The researchers noted that life expectancy losses during recurring flu epidemics over the second-half of the 20th century have been much smaller and less widespread than those seen in the pandemic. A clear .

Pandemic caused prolonged decline in global life expectancy: Study
Updated On : 18 Oct 2022 | 2:49 PM IST

Covid's medium-term impact and India's Human Development Index loss

While some of the HDI loss will survive into the future, it does not necessarily affect India's index rank in relation to others, which is down by just one over the six years to 2021, writes T N Ninan

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Updated On : 09 Sep 2022 | 9:36 PM IST

India ranks 132nd out of 191 in UNDP's human development index

UNDP report cites falling life expectancy as reason; global index falls for 2 yrs in a row

India ranks 132nd out of 191 in UNDP's human development index
Updated On : 08 Sep 2022 | 11:00 PM IST

Life expectancy in US dropped by nearly two years in 2020, says CDC

Life expectancy dropped in 2020 by nearly two years across the US, mostly due to Covid-19 and drug overdoses, according to new data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Life expectancy in US dropped by nearly two years in 2020, says CDC
Updated On : 24 Aug 2022 | 10:16 AM IST

China's life expectancy goes up to 77.93 yrs amid falling birth rates

Life expectancy in China has increased by over 0.6 of a year to 77.93 years even as the world's second-largest economy grappled with a demographic crisis due to declining birth rates

China's life expectancy goes up to 77.93 yrs amid falling birth rates
Updated On : 06 Jul 2022 | 2:54 PM IST

Will age be just a number?

Scientists are of the view that if all age-related diseases vanish, the average human life expectancy shall jump to 89 years; still, there will be no escape from death

Will age be just a number?
Updated On : 17 Jun 2022 | 11:32 PM IST

Needed: A PM's council for human development

Leave no one behind with sustainable growth and well-being

Needed: A PM's council for human development
Updated On : 15 Jun 2022 | 2:27 AM IST

The longevity puzzle

Life expectancy remains sub-par despite massive govt schemes

The longevity puzzle
Updated On : 14 Jun 2022 | 2:09 AM IST

Statsguru: New insights into the way Indians live found in NFHS edition

Nearly half of households own a two-wheeler compared to less than 10 per cent that own a car

Statsguru: New insights into the way Indians live found in NFHS edition
Updated On : 16 May 2022 | 6:04 AM IST

Average life expectancy in China to reach 78.3 years in 2025

China's average life expectancy is expected to reach 78.3 years in 2025, up from 77.3 years in 2019, according to the country's 14th five-year plan (2021-2025) for public service

Average life expectancy in China to reach 78.3 years in 2025
Updated On : 10 Jan 2022 | 3:52 PM IST