Scientists from the University of Georgia said men born in 1970 can live up to 140 years. Research published in the journal PLOS One.
In the last 25 years, no one has beaten the record of Jeanne-Louise Calment, the oldest person in the world, who died in 1997 at the age of 122. This has led many to claim that the maximum lifespan has been reached. In a new study, scientists have found evidence that this longevity record will be broken in the next forty years.
The scientists used a mathematical model to predict what death trends might look like in the coming years. They analyzed data on the death rates of hundreds of millions of people born between 1700 and the late 1900s in 19 countries until 1969.
The scientists predict that in most of the countries they studied, the maximum age will increase significantly in the future. For example, the model estimates that the oldest Japanese woman born in 1919 or later has at least a 50% chance of living to be 122 years old or older. And the oldest Japanese woman born in 1940 or later has a 50% chance of living to 130.
One limitation of the model was that it did not take into account the biology of aging and advances in medicine, relying only on historical data.