
If 75 is the new 65, we need to rethink what it means to be old
In 1950, men and women at age 65 could expect to live about 11 years more on average.
Sergei Scherbov is the Deputy Program Director of IIASA's World Population Program (POP), Director of Demographic Analysis at the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU), and Leader of the Population Dynamics and Forecasting Research Group at the Vienna Institute of Demography (VID), Austrian Academy of Sciences.
In 1950, men and women at age 65 could expect to live about 11 years more on average.
Every year, the United Nations releases the Human Development Index.
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