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Thanks to advances in medicine and healthier diets, life expectancy is, depending on gender, between 90 and 93 years for babies born in 2022. However, global warming could change the situation.
A little girl born this year may be a hundred years old because in the future there will be more and more of them. Coming into the world a few months ago, his life expectancy is 93 years and 90 years for a little boy born in 2022. Life expectancy continues to increase by two to three months each year thanks to advances in medicine and better nutrition. Women still live longer than men, but the gap between the two sexes is narrowing.
A woman born in 1920 could expect to live ten years longer than a man, while a little girl born this year will only live an average of three years longer than a little boy. The cause: female smoking. But these data should be taken with caution because they do not take into account the impacts of global warming. “If we fail to adapt to climate change, there may be effects on life expectancy”, says Gérard François-Dumont, demographer. With the effects of climate changelike pollution, mortality may increase unexpectedly.