Gains in Human Life Expectancy May Have Already Passed Their Peak

With the drastic increase in life expectancy seen over the last century or so, it's natural to assume that eventually we'll all be regularly living to 100. But a new study suggests that surge is slowing down.

The study comes from an international team of researchers who looked at population data across 23 high-income, low-mortality countries during the 20th century. Historical records were combined with six different forecasting models, primarily for people born between 1939 and 2000.

Here's the takeaway: gains in life expectancy are already slowing down significantly, and that's going to continue for the foreseeable future. Life expectancy will still edge up, but only at a rate about half of what it's been previously.

It looks like we'll have to adjust our collective and individu