Humans can now live up to 140 years, scientists predict
Many experts have long suspected that the human lifespan has reached its limit, and no one is likely to surpass the record of Jeanne Calment, a French woman who died at the age of 122.
But a new study has concluded that we are still 'far' from any maximum if there is one. And there is also a 50/50 chance that someone born in 1940 in the UK will reach the impressive age of 125. This means that an eight-year-old today is still alive in 2065.
Researchers from the University of Georgia analyzed the life expectancy of people in the United Kingdom born since 1880 to find out what might be possible in the future.
Their predictions show that men born in 1970 could live to be 141 years old and the oldest women born in 1970 could live to be 131 years old.
The rise of modern medicine after World War II, good nutrition, and political stability, among other factors, may have contributed to the increase in life expectancy thus far and projected to continue.
The authors say that the oldest among people born between 1910 and 1950 can regularly live to 120 or more.
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