How long can a person live: the impressive fact of a study

How long can a person live? It’s a question that humanity has been done throughout history and which over time has been repeated from generation to generation, with increasingly favorable data and figures with the passage of time. Scientific, technological, health and medical advances revealed that the life expectancy of men and women has been significantly increased, especially since the beginning of the 21st century.

Now, a study of British origin published on Wednesday September 29, 2021 by the magazine Royal Society Open Science detailed that humans can probably live at least 130 years or even more. In fact, recent research is entering the discussion with an analysis of new data from super-centenarians (110 years or more) and semi-super-centenarians (105 years or more).

While the Risk of death generally increases with age, the above analysis shows that in the end it tends to stagnate and remains at “50 to 50” between the possibilities of living or dying. “From the age of 110, we can consider living one more year like a coin toss”said the person responsible for this report, Anthony Davison, professor of statistics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. “If it’s expensive, you’ll live your next birthday. Otherwise, you’ll die sometime in the next year.”, he goes into more detail on this.

Why we can live to 130 years according to statistics

Research results published by the journal Royal Society Open Science from London, England, indicate that in fact “There would be no specific limit to life expectancy.” There, some information was gathered from the International Longevity Database -which covers over 1,100 supercentennials from 13 countries- and another from Italy, with information on all people in the country aged 105 or over between 2009 and 2015.

“If there had been a lower limit than 130 years, we could have detected it with the data currently available. The chances of reaching 130 years are one in a million … It is not impossible, but very unlikely.”, added specialist Davison.

Who was the oldest person in history

Among those who have already died, these are Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment, who died in 1997 at the age of 122. Yet among those who are still alive, the oldest is the Japanese Kane Tanaka, with 118.