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"Despite average life expectancy increasing, the proportion of Australians
making it to age 110 has barely shifted since the 1960s, with a new report
asking whether there is a limit to how far lifespan can be pushed.
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) on Tuesday published its
How long can Australians live? report, containing the latest life expectancy
and longevity data. Over the past five decades, life expectancy in Australia
has increased by 13.7 years for males (to 81.3) and by 11.2 years for females
(to 85.4).
The report found more people are living past 100, with people aged 100 or older
making up .08% of deaths in 1964, and 1.4% of deaths by 2021.
But most of these centenarian deaths were people who died between the ages of
100 and 104 years.
There were two supercentenarian deaths – meaning people who died after making
it to 110 or older – in the decade from 1964, and 31 in the decade beginning
2012, comprising less than .01% of deaths in both time periods.
“Why are people living longer on average, but there has been minimal
improvement in the longest living individuals?” the report says."
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