But the need for adequate retirement savings becoming increasingly important as life
expectancy rises.
As life
expectancy rises for the senior demographic, there is a Read More
And with bonds falling and life
expectancy rising you may need to make a little more money to power your retirement for the next 15 years and beyond.
In some parts of central and Eastern Europe, not only did life
expectancy rise but heart disease went down a lot: Changes away from high cholesterol and fatty diets helped that.
Pope and his team analyzed life expectancy, economic, demographic and pollution data from 51 metropolitan areas, and found that when fine - particle air pollution dropped by 10 micrograms per cubic meter, life
expectancy rose by 31 weeks — such as in Akron, Ohio and Philadelphia.
Looking back at 40 years of human progress in 135 countries — 92 % of the world's population --- the report shows that average life
expectancy rose from 59 to 70 years, primary school enrolment grew from 55 to 70 percent, and per capita income doubled to more than $ 10,000.
With life
expectancies rising and insurers competing for your business, whole life insurance rates are more affordable than you might think.
Not exact matches
Notwithstanding
rising life
expectancy and declining workplace pension coverage, most Canadians working today can look forward to a longer retirement with a better quality of life than their parents.
As in military wars, its devastating consequences threaten to include shortening life
expectancy, lower health standards and depopulation, poverty and de-industrialization,
rising debt arrears and defaults.
Compounding the challenge is the fact that people are now living longer — life
expectancy has
risen by about 6 years since the early 1980s.
But with improvements in medicine and lifestyles, average life
expectancy for Americans who reach 65 has
risen nearly seven years — to 84.3 for men and 86.6 for women — since Social Security was established.
The demographic shifts taking place in the world at large — both the continued
rise in life
expectancy and the fall in fertility rates — are a global megatrend with important implications for investment behavior.
And perhaps it needs to be clear, too, that if people are upping their equities exposure, for longer, because of
rising life
expectancy, they need to expect to retire later.
Initial Social Security benefits themselves
rise roughly in line with wage growth, and lifetime benefits increase further as life
expectancy grows.
At the same time, with
rising life
expectancy the number of years spent in retirement has increased dramatically, health care costs are high and rapidly
rising, and interest rates are at historic lows.
Rising life
expectancy is itself an indication of improved general levels of health, and is suggestive of other changes in living conditions supportive of general improvements in health.
As one geneticist, Michael R.
Rose, has tellingly put it, if we could gain for the elderly the health of those between the ages of ten and fifteen in developed countries, most Americans would have a life
expectancy of 1200 years, and some would live 2000 years.
Alongside the
rise in life
expectancy, and with this the length of lifelong marriages, there has been a
rise in expectations concerning the interpersonal dimension of married life [8]- resulting in an unfortunate parody of the Lord's saying that, «to whom more is given, more is expected».
Despite advancements in technology, ever - increasing access to wealth and longer life
expectancy, anxiety has been steadily
rising since the 1930s.
As life
expectancy continues to
rise, dietician and health writer Dr Carrie Ruxton discusses the nutrients most important to the growing demographic of ageing consumers.
84: Messi drives into the Bilbao penalty area as the crowd
rise in
expectancy, however, Martinez stops the Argentinean in his tracks with a superb tackle.
Over the period 1980 to 2012, unemployment
rose from just 6.4 % to 27.4 % in spite of consistent GDP growth rate averaging more than 7.5 % and by 2016, 33.6 % (using NBS old measure); Human Development Index (HDI) has
risen only modestly between 1990 (0.411) and 2014 (0.514); and average life
expectancy in spite of our enormous resources remains stuck at 52.9 years in 2015 while the equivalent figure in the developed world averages over 70 years.
Thinktank Policy Exchange said
rising life
expectancy and fewer active members were responsible for the high cost, which has
risen from less than # 1 billion in 1991.
First of all, Japan is not an ageing society due to their birth rate (which is actually on the
rise either way, from 1.26 in 2005 to 1.5 in 2016), but due to their high life
expectancy which itself is a byproduct of a culture that generally respects the elderly far more than western countries do.
The annual shortfalls after trust fund reserve depletion
rise slowly and reflect increases in life
expectancy after 2033.
The EU Commission has proposed that state pension ages should
rise in all member - states in accordance with increasing life
expectancy.
Back in 1975, economists plotted
rising life
expectancies against countries» wealth, and concluded that wealth itself increases longevity.
Life
expectancy has
risen an average of 12 years for women and 11 years for men worldwide in the past 40 years.
There is
rising life
expectancy to account for, along with a legacy of 20th - century baby boomers who remain fertile.
While average life
expectancy has been
rising steadily in most countries over the past century, new research led by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) shows that life
expectancy declined significantly and rapidly in three countries where policy changes increased access to prescription opioids, alcohol or illicit drugs.
From 1999 to 2013, mortality increased by nine per cent in middle - aged white non-Hispanic Americans, despite life
expectancy continuing to
rise among other U.S. populations, including Hispanic and black non-Hispanic populations.
People across the U.S. are living longer, but life
expectancy for residents along the East and West Coasts and in central Colorado and Alaska has
risen more than it has in the Southeast and other disparate locations.
Human life
expectancy, for example, has
risen from 47 years in the 1950s to 69 years in the 2000s.
Worldwide, life
expectancy of older people continues to
rise.
In India, for example, people do not live as long as they do in many developed countries, but life
expectancy is continuing to go up, prompting a sharper
rise in the number of dementia cases among the elderly.
Global life
expectancy has
risen by more than six years since 1990 as healthy life
expectancy grows; ischemic heart disease, lower respiratory infections, and stroke cause the most health loss around the world.
Global life
expectancy at birth for both sexes
rose by 6.2 years (from 65.3 in 1990 to 71.5 in 2013), while healthy life
expectancy, or HALE, at birth
rose by 5.4 years (from 56.9 in 1990 to 62.3 in 2013).
In Russia, on the other hand, life
expectancy plummeted, and deaths of middle - aged and older men
rose significantly.
Predicting whether life
expectancies will keep
rising is as much art as science.
Despite a life
expectancy of 85 and
rising, the number of Japanese is falling thanks to a fertility rate of just 1.4 children per woman, and a reported epidemic of virginity.
You analyze the definitive studies and find that the number of people whose lives are saved by bypass surgery, angiograms, and cholesterol - lowering drugs is statistically insignificant — and yet life
expectancy has
risen since the advent of all three of those treatments.
«Acute cardiovascular care is expensive and with life
expectancy continuing to
rise, the prevalence of CVD continues to increase,» write the authors.
An explosive
rise in obesity may cause life
expectancy in the U.S. to level off or decline by 2050, according to a new study.
«Last two decades see
rising life
expectancy in every province of China but substantial health inequalities remain.»
Life
expectancy in the developed world has continued to
rise, largely because of the reduction in old age mortality, say the authors.
In Canada, one in every 3,600 children are diagnosed with CF.. But life
expectancy rates have
risen dramatically in recent decades with the median age of survival now over 50 years, due to better treatments to improve lung function, better nutrition and lung transplants.
Vaupel has shown that the maximum life
expectancy among such countries has
risen steadily by more than two years each decade since 1840.
Years of healthy life
expectancy and the likelihood of disability in older age vary significantly, and as a result particular groups are going to find it hard to keep working beyond 65 and are more likely to be disadvantaged by a
rise in the state pension age, than others.
In the 20th century, U.S. life
expectancy climbed from 47 to its present height of mid to late 70's, a
rise unprecedented in human history.
Due to the continuing
rise in life
expectancy, the disease and its associated burden of suffering among individuals and their families and its costs to society are becoming ever more significant public health problems.