| crissindahouse said: isn't the most important reason for that the decreasing childhood mortality? i believe in 1880 every fourth kid or so died before it was 5 years old and if they would have had the same rate as we have nowadays the difference wouldn't be even that big (i'm talking about germany now, not sure how many kids died in other developed countries back then) so i think an average of 100 won't be the case in 2001 and if they talk about the average life expectancy they talk about new born so if you read that we have a life expectancy of 83 nowadays they talk about the new born babies which would be only 89 in the year 2101 so even the new born of nowadays would be above average life expectany in 2101 with "only" 89. |
Yeah most of the increase has been from people actually living to be 80 instead of dying in youth, after which they rapidly drop dead. There were people becoming 100-110 long before most of the medical wonders.
Better working conditions, better food and water quality, better environment, safer environment, reduced smoking rates are also helping.
