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Rising Life Expectancy: A Global History

Riley, James C.·2001
DOI 10.1017/cbo9781316036495
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Between 1800 and 2000 life expectancy at birth rose from about 30 years to a global average of 67 years, and to more than 75 years in favored countries. This dramatic change, called the health transition, is characterized by a transition both in how long people expected to live, and how they expected to die. The most common age at death jumped from infancy to old age. Most people lived to know their children as adults, and most children became acquainted with their grandparents. Whereas earlier people died chiefly from infectious diseases with a short course, by later decades they died from chronic diseases, often with a protracted course. The ranks of people living in their most economically productive years filled out, and the old became commonplace figures everywhere. Rising Life Expectancy: A Global History examines the way humans reduced risks to their survival, both regionally and globally, to promote world population growth and population aging.

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  • Before the middle of the nineteenth century, life expectancy at birth for humans was between 20 and 50 years.

    “Before the middle of the nineteenth century, life expectancy at birth for humans languished at low levels by today’s standards—between 20 years and 50 years1.”

    From Implausibility of radical life extension in humans in the twenty-first century (2024) · cites this paper as [1]

  • Over the twentieth century, human life expectancy at birth rose in high-income nations by approximately 30 years, largely driven by advances in public health and medicine.

    “Over the course of the twentieth century, human life expectancy at birth rose in high-income nations by approximately 30 years, largely driven by advances in public health and medicine.”

    From Implausibility of radical life extension in humans in the twenty-first century (2024) · cites this paper as [1]

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Authors
Riley, J. C.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Published
2001-06-04
DOI
10.1017/cbo9781316036495
Cited by
305
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