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| Hongkongers have some of the longest life expectancies |
An Associated Press article about life expectancy has some interesting facts about the places in the world where people live the longest.
S. Jay Olshansky is a University of Ilinois-Chicago researcher and he and his team found that humans have pretty much hit the limit of life expectancy.
As part of the study, the researchers focused on eight places where people live the longest. In alphabetical order they are: Australia, France, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Spain and Switzerland.
There seems to be more people reaching 100 years old -- like former US President Jimmy Carter last week. And Olshansky says in 2019, a little over 2 percent of Americans made it to that age, compared to 5 percent in Japan and 9 percent in Hong Kong.
9 percent! That's a pretty amazing statistic, though five years on, one wonders if that percentage still stands.
Nevertheless it's pretty impressive!
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