New research suggests that human life expectancy has hit its peak based on global statistics. Researcher S. Jay Olshansky explains why the focus should shift to healthspan extension.

Spain, Sweden and Switzerland), Hong Kong and the US from 1990 to 2019. Life expectancy at birth in the longest-living populations only increased an average of six and a half years since 1990 ...

Switzerland leads the way with an average life expectancy of 84.2 years, followed closely by Spain at 84 years and Italy at 83.8 – all about three or more years longer than the UK, which ranked ...

The rate of life expectancy growth slowed to below 0.2 years ... Japan, South Korea, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland — with those of the United States between 1990 and 2019 to determine changes ...

Human life expectancy in high-income countries is no ... Japan, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Hong Kong. They also looked at figures from the U.S., as some scientists made specific ...

Spain's life expectancy was a relatively poor 61.8 years in 1950 but has since shot up, particularly during the economic miracle of the 1960s and following the end of the Francoist dictatorship in ...

Spain and Switzerland. The U.S. doesn’t even rank in the top 40. But is also was included “because we live here” and because of past, bold estimates that life expectancy in the U.S. might ...

Image Credit: Solarisys/Shutterstock.com Life expectancy before the 19 th century ... high-income countries such as Switzerland, Sweden, Spain, South Korea, Japan, Italy, France, Australia ...

Life expectancy is slowing down as we reach the end of a ‘longevity revolution’. The next step is to slow the ageing process, but how possible is that? The dramatic rise in life expectancy ...