Life Expectancy In the Future

Yasemin Saplakoglu, a staff writer with Live Science, explains what could happen with our life expectancy by 2040. He feels the way things are going now, by 2040 we are probably going to be better off than we are today. On the average both women and men will have a 4.4 years higher rate. The new report was published in the journal The Lancet. However, the public health choices and policy decisions could either make us succeed or fail, depending upon the path we choose. The worst scenario would be a decreased life expectancy in …read more