In the UK in 1965, the most common age of death was in the first year of life. Today the most common age to die is 87 years old. This startling statistic comes from a remarkable new book, The Longevity Imperative, by Andrew Scott of the London Business School. He notes, too, that a newborn girl in Japan has a 96 per cent chance of making it to 60, while Japanese women have a life expectancy of nearly 88. Japan is exceptional. But we are living longer everywhere: global life expectancy is now 76 for women and 71 for men (clearly, the weaker sex).
在1965年的英國，最常見的死亡年齡是出生後的第一年。而現在，最常見的死亡年齡是87歲。這個驚人的統計數據來自於倫敦商學院(London Business School)的安德魯•史考特(Andrew Scott)的一本引人注目的新書《長壽的必然性》。他還指出，日本的新生女嬰有96%的機會活到60歲，而日本女性的平均壽命接近88歲。日本的情況是個例外。但無論在哪裏，我們的壽命都在延長：全球女性的平均壽命現在是76歲，男性是71歲（顯然，男性是較弱的性別）。