This is the limit. Scientists call the maximum duration of human life
MOSCOW, 2 sen — RIA of news. Scientists from the Netherlands called the limit of human life: in men it is about 114 years, women have 115,7 years. This is the website of Tilburg University.
To define such a framework specialists, after analyzing data on life expectancy of more than 75 thousand inhabitants of the Netherlands who died in the period from 1986 to 2016 at the age of 94 years.
According to the study, over the past 30 years the maximum duration of human life has not changed, which suggests that the limit is reached.
Last year a similar conclusion was reached by a group of American scientists. According to them, the Further improvement of medicine will not increase the life expectancy indefinitely — the limit of age of the person, most likely, is about 100 years at which mortality increases sharply irrespective of all external factors.
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