The age of gold is 105 if you want to live longer, suggests a study

Living until the age of 100 may seem like a laudable goal, but a study suggests that centenarians should really aim to survive after 105 years, because that's when their risk of death ceases to increase and even begins to decline. found that mortality rates, which increase exponentially with age, begin to decelerate after age 80 and then approach a plateau after 105, before starting to fall slightly. This means that people aged 105 seem to be less likely to die than slightly younger people.

An international team of researchers from Italy, Germany, Denmark and the United States studied survival rates from between 2009 and 2015.

Research has found that, so Counter-intuitive, as people age, their chance of dying begins to decline and may even begin to reverse, which may indicate that human longevity is increasing globally.

People living beyond the age of 105 are at 60% risk of death each year – about two out of three – but do not worsen and may even fall below 50% for some people.

Elisabetta Barbi, of the Sapienza University of Rome, lead author of the report, stated:
"The growing number of people with exceptional longevity and the fact that their mortality beyond 105 l & # Ongevity helps to increase over time and that a limit, if any, has not yet been reached.

"Our results contribute to a recently revived debate about the existence of A fixed maximum life span for humans, endorsing the doubt that any limit is "

Since the 19th century, average life expectancy has increased almost continuously.

But a recent study from the College of Medicine Albert Einstein suggested that imperfections in gene copying always mean that there is a limit The longest human lifespan so far is that of Jeanne Calment de France (1875-1997), who lived until the age of 122 years, 164 days. She died in 1997 in Arles, France

The new research was published in the journal Science .

– Telegraph Group Ltd