The latest U.S. life tables have arrived. There were small gains for males and for females since the last major release at the end of last year (2016). The life expectancy of a male at birth is now 76.5 (up 0.1) and for females it is now 81.3 (up 0.1). It appears that the rate of gains made in the past few decades are now beginning to slow down. We may be hitting a wall on gains to life expectancy. It is also possible that other factors are at play such as the emergence of new strains of resistant bacteria, increasing rates of diabetes and obesity, and little progress with cancer. It will be interesting to see how the story unfolds over the next couple of decades.
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