The French, but especially the French women, are living longer and longer.
According to an INED study, the national institute for demographic studies, published Thursday, January 19, the limits of the duration of human life are constantly being pushed back. France has more and more centenarians, even super-centenarians who reach the age of 110 or even 115 years.
Among these centenarians, women greatly outnumber men. “They represent 84% of centenarians. On January 1, 2021, of the 27,497 centenarians living in metropolitan France, 23,156 were women”, notes INED. The doyenne of humanity, the French sister André,
died on Tuesday January 17 at the age of 118.
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The probability of living a hundred years has never been higher
According to INSEE, “in 2060, metropolitan France might have 198,645 centenarians, once morest 3,760 in 1990 and only a hundred in 1900”. Thus since the 1980s, a new age group, the super-centenarians, has appeared. It brings together those who have celebrated their 110th birthday.
The question of the limits of human life
In view of these projections, the national institute for demographic studies raises the question of the limits of the duration of human life. “Until the 1970s, it was commonly accepted that all the progress made since the 18th century had only brought the average lifespan closer to the age of 120, considered a maximum for the human species. Now , some scientists no longer exclude that human beings might live up to 150 years, or even more, if the knowledge of genetics and the mechanism of aging continues to progress and makes it possible to slow down biological processes”, explains the study.
In 1995, a new milestone was reached when a Frenchwoman, Jeanne Calment, celebrated her 120th birthday. Died in 1997, at the age of 122, she still holds the record for human longevity.
