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115 Years, New Study Says
The
scientists charted how many people of varying ages were alive in a
given year. Then they compared the figures from year to year, in order
to calculate how fast the population grew at each age.
The
fastest-growing portion of society has been old people, Dr. Vijg found.
In France in the 1920s, for example, the fastest-growing group of women
was the 85-year-olds.
As
average life expectancy lengthened, this peak shifted as well. By the
1990s, the fastest-growing group of Frenchwomen was the 102-year-olds.
If that trend had continued, the fastest-growing group today might well
be the 110-year-olds.
Instead,
the increases slowed down and appear to have stopped. When Dr. Vijg and
his students looked at data from 40 countries, they found the same
overall trend.
The
shift toward growth in ever-older populations started slowing in the
1980s; about a decade ago, it stalled. This might have occurred, Dr.
Vijg and his colleagues said, because humans finally have hit an upper
limit to their longevity.
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