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longevity
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thumb|upright 1.3|Comparison of male and female life expectancy at birth for countries and territories as defined by [[World Health Organization|WHO for 2019. The green dotted line corresponds to equal female and male life expectancy. Open the original svg-image in a separate window and hover over a bubble to see more detailed information. The square of the bubbles is proportional to the country's population based on estimation of the UN.]]
Research
75,764 papers- Prolonging healthy aging: Longevity vitamins and proteins.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018
- Gut microbiota and healthy longevity.Science China. Life sciences · 2024
- The longevity society.The lancet. Healthy longevity · 2021
- Establishing healthy longevity clinics in publicly funded hospitals.GeroScience · 2024
- The mitochondrial integrated stress response: A novel approach to anti-aging and pro-longevity.Ageing research reviews · 2025
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Encyclopedic overview
21 sectionsContents
- Life expectancy, as of 2010
- Long-lived individuals
- Major factors
- Genetics
- Lifestyle
- Diet
- Biological pathways
- Change over time
- Naturally limited longevity
- Myths and claims
- Non-human biological longevity
- Examples of long-lived plants and animals
- Currently living<!-- Per the researchers who originally reported a 5,073+ year old pinus longaeva: "... as of 2017, the age of this tree has not been able to be confirmed; the core dated by Tom Harlan has not been located at the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research. Therefore, I have removed this tree from OldList until such time as it is able to be confirmed." http://www.rmtrr.org/oldlist.htm -->
- Dead
- Artificial animal longevity extension
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Citations
- Sources
- External links
thumb|upright 1.3|Comparison of male and female life expectancy at birth for countries and territories as defined by [[World Health Organization|WHO for 2019. The green dotted line corresponds to equal female and male life expectancy. Open the original svg-image in a separate window and hover over a bubble to see more detailed information. The square of the bubbles is proportional to the country's population based on estimation of the UN.]]
Longevity may refer to especially long-lived members of a population, whereas life expectancy is defined statistically as the average number of years remaining at a given age. For example, a population's life expectancy at birth is the same as the average age at death for all people born in the same year (in the case of cohorts).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “longevity” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.