Faster increases in human life expectancy could lead to slower population aging

Sanderson, W.C. & Scherbov, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0881-1073 (2015). Faster increases in human life expectancy could lead to slower population aging. PLoS ONE 10 (4) e0121922. 10.1371/journal.pone.0121922.

Preview

Text Faster Increases in Human Life Expectancy Could Lead to Slower Population Aging.PDF - Published Version Available under License Creative Commons Attribution. Download (266kB) | Preview

Abstract

Counterintuitively, faster increases in human life expectancy could lead to slower population aging. The conventional view that faster increases in human life expectancy would lead to faster population aging is based on the assumption that people become old at a fixed chronological age. A preferable alternative is to base measures of aging on people's time left to death, because this is more closely related to the characteristics that are associated with old age. Using this alternative interpretation, we show that faster increases in life expectancy would lead to slower population aging. Among other things, this finding affects the assessment of the speed at which countries will age.

Actions (login required)

View Item