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Re:A growing body of research shows that life gets better as... by diego on Monday December 01, 2014 @07:30PM (#8685024)
Life expectancy simply means that 50% of those people will be dead by 100. It could be that 99% of them are dead by 110.

That's a perfectly plausible distribution. Japan, for example, has over 50k 100+ inhabitants (and probably 0 over 120).

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Re:A growing body of research shows that life gets better as... by tomp on Monday December 01, 2014 @07:54PM (#8685093)
No, it doesn't. From Wikipefia:

> Life expectancy is a statistical average of the number of years a human lives

Therefore, if 3 people live until 110, and the fourth dies at 30, life expectancy is 90 years.

In another part of his comment, tokenadult mentioned another estimate that means what you're describing:

> Girls born since 2000 in the developed world are more likely than not to reach the age of 100

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