At the current rate of growth, it is expected that, with babies born in 2018, more than 50% of women will live to 90 years old.
A report on July 30 by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Social Security (Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare) said that the average life expectancy of Japanese people is 87.32 for women and 81 for women. 25 with men. In 2017, the average life expectancy in this country, for women was 87.26 and men was 81.09.
Life expectancy chart of Japanese people since World War II. It is expected that with babies born in 2018, 88.1% of women and 75.6% of men will live to the age of 75. And there will be 50.5% of women and 25% of men can live to 90 years old.
Compared to the rest of the world, since 2017, Japan’s position has remained unchanged – the country with the world’s largest life expectancy for women, and the third largest for men.
Japan’s average life expectancy has increased almost continuously year after year, since the end of World War II. The country’s Ministry of Health said that the decline in the death rate from cancer, heart and brain-related diseases is the reason for the country’s average life expectancy to continuously increase over the years.
At the current rate of growth, it is expected that, with babies born in 2018, 88.1% of women and 75.6% of men will live to age 75. And there will be 50.5% of women and 25% of men can live to 90 years old.
Besides Japan, other countries and territories with high life expectancies are Hong Kong, Switzerland, Norway, and Sweden. According to Nippon’s 2016 data, Hong Kong has the world’s longest life expectancy for both sexes, with an average of 87.66 for women and 81.7 for men.