Life expectancy at birth for US women is rising in absolute terms but falling relative to other countries.
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It should be remembered that in the late 1940s Japanese life expectancy at birth was eleven years shorter than in the United States.
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The others had died in 1969 (ie, at the age of 73, the average life expectancy at birth of women born around Boston in 1896).
And life expectancy at birth no longer applies at later ages.
The life expectancy at birth for South Koreans exceeds 79 years.
Life expectancy at birth for white men now stands at 76.2 years, up from 75.3 years, compared with 70.8 years for black men, up from 68.8 years.
Some sources say that we can expect an increase in life expectancy at birth by 2050 will go from 86 years for males and 92 years for females.
Average life expectancy at birth, at 74, is now 25 years higher than it was 50 years ago, yet the retirement age has remained at the same low level.
The average age of the last five popes at death has been above 70 for nearly all of the last four centuries older than world-wide male life expectancy at birth today.
Over the two decades ended in 2010, each one-year increase in life expectancy at birth was associated with about a 10-month increase in healthy life expectancy, according to data published in the Lancet in December.
World-wide, from 1970 to 2010, male life expectancy at birth increased to 68 from 56, and female life expectancy at birth increased to 73 from 61, according to a study published in December by researchers mostly from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, at the University of Washington in Seattle.
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