More than half of babies born today in rich countries live for 100 years if current trends in life expectancy remains a study in the medical journal The Lancet published reported recently.
In the 20th Century have increased the most developed countries around 30 years in life expectancy, the newspaper led by Kaare Christensen, professor at the Danish Aging Research Center at the University of Souther Denmark.
In 1950, only 15% to 16% of women 80 years and only 12% of octogenarian men came at the age of 90 years in the advanced economies. In 2002 this figure had increased to 37% and 25%. In Japan, the survival rate from 80 to 90 is now over 50% for women.
"If the increase in life expectancy in developed countries over the last two centuries, on through the 21th century, most babies born since 2000 in France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Japan and other countries for a long-term expectation is celebrating its 100th birthday, "said the review.
The data also suggest that today, the additional year of less disturbed by the disability and dependence in the past.
However, the document warns that the duration of the longer life expectancy on the major social challenges, economic and medical, that the very elderly have become a larger part of the community.
One solution would be to expand the employment is more evenly across the population and the phases of life, say the authors.
Instead of a long, intense and moves in with his retirement, individuals can combine work, education, recreation and education of children in different amounts at different ages.
Was "The 20th century a century of redistribution of income. The 21st century is a century of redistribution of work, they said.
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