Boston: The average human lifespan across the world is 70 years and could vary in few countries but according to a recent study the human lifespan is increasing by three years with every generation.
This trend of increasing lifespan with every generation is likely to continue according to a study by Stanford University in US.
Stanford Researchers have analyzed the life expectancy data from the past 50 years and surprisingly found that people who tend survive until the age of 65 will continue to live longer than their parents.
On the contrary to this recent finding, previous research in the field has suggested that humans were approaching the limit to their longevity.
“The data shows that we can expect longer lives and there’s no sign of a slowdown in this trend,” said Shripad Tuljapurkar, Stanford University professor.
“There’s not a limit to life that we can see, so what we can say for sure is that it’s not close enough that we can see the effect,” he said.
The study was also published in the journal ‘PNAS’ which studied the birth and death data for people above age 65 from 1960-2010.
Detailed data analyze from over 20 countries revealed that those who lived longer than 65 increased their lifespan by three years in every 25-year period in a continued trend, TOI reports.
Some factors like medical breakthroughs did cause some minor fluctuations in how quickly lifespans increased, but then even these influences stopped effecting.
What the study could not explain is only few people live longer than everyone else and most don’t even make it to 55.