For humans in industrialized countries, life expectancy has increased significantly.
"Life expectancy has increased faster than healthy life expectancy," says Ben Franklin, research fellow at the centre.
The average life expectancy has increased by at least 10 years since the NHS came into existence.
Life expectancy has increased a bit in low- and middle-income countries.
Black life expectancy has increased from the mid-30s around 1900 to the mid-70s in 2016, according to the CDC.
Over the last 200 years, best practice life expectancy has increased at a near constant rate of more than two years every decade.
Life expectancy has increased by 40% over the past 25 years, with more pensioners now living in the UK than people under the age of 16.
Since Bevan's masterpiece was created, life expectancy has increased dramatically – male life expectancy has risen from 66 in 1948 to over 78.
It is a fair adjustment given the increased longevity of the population: European life expectancy has increased by almost ten years since 1950.
Since Israel won the West Bank from Jordan, the Palestinians' life expectancy has increased, their infant mortality has been reduced, and their economy has prospered.
For reasons that are not well understood, life expectancy of females usually exceeds that of males, and this female advantage has grown as overall life expectancy has increased.
