Is there a limit to life expectancy?

An excellent summary article on the new statistics of life expectancy on the BBC website.


The one liner is that all recent research suggests that as yet there is no discernible limit to how long we can live. Looks like we will be joining the turtles and parrots yet.

Living longer: the ageing population

Have a look at a great BBC piece on global ageing. Facts and some interesting interviews relating to the huge social and economic implications of the ageing population.

By 2040, the world's population aged 60 and over will more than treble to two billion people.

In the next 30 years, for the first time in human history, there will be more people on the planet who are over 60 than those under the age of 15.