New research suggests that the deceleration in the pace of life expectancy growth has shifted to a trend.
According to analysis from the Continuous Mortality Investigation, the decline has now surpassed the ‘blip’ stage, with the observed improvement in life expectancy since the millennium starting to falter.
Seen by the Financial Times, the data shows that the growth in life expectancy from 2011 – 2017 was much less than any recent period of the same duration.
At the start of 2018, the life expectancy for a 65-year -old was approximately two months shorter than that of 2016 – this was the case for both genders.
The slowdown is even more significant when compared to the 2014 data, with the life expectancy for men and women aged 65, now 10 months and 12 months shorter respectively.
