Key Points
- In the last 200 years, life expectancy has doubled in every country across the world.
- Even the poorest countries in the world have life expectancies at least 10 years higher than the richest countries had two centuries ago.
- Since the 1950s, there has been rapid convergence in life expectancies for the richest and poorest countries and now over 80% of the world’s population is expected to live over 65 years old.
Background
Today, living standards are dramatically higher than ever before (see here and here) and this has led to a rapid improvement in life expectancies across the world. As can be seen in the chart below, in 1800 the richest countries in the world had life expectancies below 40 years and this has doubled to over 80 years today. While increases in life expectancies in the poorest countries have been smaller in absolute terms they have…
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