According to new scientific research, humanity has probably "caught the ceiling" in terms of life expectancy. We cannot live above 115 years, experts say.
The oldest person to die on Earth - according to official figures - was Frenchman Jean Kalman, who died in 1997 at the age of 122 years old. It has been 20 years since her death, but in the meantime no other person has died at an older age (at least according to official records), which makes her an impressive statistical exception.
Although life expectancy is on the rise, the new "ceiling" of human life is 115 years, say US scientists the probability of someone living to 125 is less than one in 10,000.
The researchers, led by Professor Jan Wig of the Department of Genetics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, who published the study in the journal Nature, analyzed global demographic data and focused on four countries, Japan (Japan, France). .A, Britain), as regards the maximum age of death recorded in international databases. These countries were chosen because they have the largest number of people over the age of 110 in their population.
Their analysis revealed that both the expectation of human life and the maximum age of death appeared steady growth according to 19th and 20th century, thanks to vaccines, antibiotics, the best nutrition and hygiene conditions, thus reinforcing theories that our lives may not have a physical limit on its duration.
And while research records timeless improvement between the ages of 70 and 100 - that is, more and more people are living for so many years - is noted slowing down from 100 and up. The people who now reach 110, they have no longer life expectancy by those who reached the same age in 1970.
Today the average maximum age of death is 115 years and scientists predict that it will remain the same for several more years. «For the first time in history, life expectancy - the ceiling, the limit - seems to be around 115. It is almost impossible to live beyond this age… From now on, people will not exceed 115Said Wig. However, not everyone agrees with this view, as they believe that there is room for growth and the "ceiling" of life expectancy, mainly through genetic and pharmaceutical interventions that will slow down the overall rate of aging.