New research predicts a rise in life expectancy worldwide over the next three decades, particularly in Africa. Meanwhile, obesity and other factors are also set to play a larger role in poor health.
Global life expectancy is set to increase by almost five years by 2025, new research has found, but factors like obesity and high blood pressure mean people will spend more years in poor health.
The findings were part of the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries and Risk Factors Study 2021, which was published in the medical journal *The Lancet *on Thursday.
“Future trends may be quite different than past trends because of factors such as climate change and increasing obesity and addiction,” said Liane Ong, lead research scientist at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHMEE) at the University of Washington, which led the study.
Yeah, not for you and me in the US.
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Of course you’ll live longer! Now we can raise the age of retirement. We promise you’ll live long enough to see it. Almost there!
It’s a new study based off data from 2021. It does not take into account things like climate change. It deals primarily with better health care in Africa, though that may be moot in a few cases due to war/political instability since 2021.
Info is here https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2667(24)00053-7/fulltext
Okay. To live in what world left though? 🤔
*for 1% of the population
Yeah, we’ll see how well that works when billions of people are displaced by climate change, living in poverty with little to no access to healthcare or medicine.
I’m sure that’ll bump the average waaaay up.
/SThe headline says “by 2050” and the first line of the article says “by 2025”. Is it me or is this confused?
And it’s not at all clear from this article whether they took into account factors such as food and water shortages and wars arising from climate change, pollution-related health issues, and health problems arising from climate change and other environmental change, including the probability of new pandemics.
Overall, not a very informative article.
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This isn’t the “singularity;” this is the developing world catching up with the developed world.