increasing, the average lifespan in France stands at 79.5 years

The latest 2022 mortality figures published by Public Health France and Inserm indicate that the average lifespan has increased by a few months in the space of a year.

We are still living a little longer in France, according to the latest 2022 mortality figures published on Tuesday October 8 by Public Health France and Inserm. For men, as for women, the average age of death is 79.5 years in our country. The average lifespan has therefore increased by a few months in the space of a year. The main causes of death remain tumors with one in four deaths, then cardiovascular diseases which represent one in five deaths.

Furthermore, with 90% of the population covered by complete vaccination, mortality due to Covid-19 has decreased significantly, to only represent 6% of deaths. This represents the equivalent of accidental deaths from falls or domestic accidents and is half as many as during the health crisis.

On the other hand, regardless of Covid-19, deaths from respiratory diseases, especially among those over 85, have increased in France. These are mainly the consequences of pneumonia, flu or chronic respiratory diseases.

This life expectancy can still be extended, but only within a certain limit. Lifestyles and medical advances have increased life expectancy by 30% in a century in developed countries, but anti-aging medicine has its limits and not everyone will live to be 120, according to a American study which was published Monday October 7 (link in English). These researchers examined life expectancy statistics in the eight countries in the world where people live the longest. This list includes France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Australia, Japan, Korea, and the United States.

In these countries, where lifespans have already increased significantly, and barring breakthrough discoveries to slow the biological aging process, trends show that a radical extension of human life this century is unlikely. . Future generations will not live 30 years longer than current generations. At best, 15% of women and 5% of men can hope to become centenarians in the decades to come and given the state of science, humanity seems to be approaching the limits of human aging.