The rise in the number of the old (and, according to this report, the "oldest old," classified as the over-80s) is a massive human success story: life expectancy increases because of better education, greater wealth, lower infant mortality, better healthcare, less disease, the reduction of armed conflict, and the development of technology and its application in pursuit of good.
"Absent a war, genocide, pandemic, or massive governmental collapse, drops in life expectancy are rare," wrote Monica Potts in the American Prospect last month.
The expectancy of this crowd is massive".
Mr Osborne said the change was needed so pension age "keeps tracks with life expectancy" and future taxpayers would be spared a massive bill.
Musk then got somber, put on his superhero hat and showed the massive crowd estimates of how air quality can reduce life expectancy in some of the world's most polluted cities: Beijing, 22 months, Los Angeles, eight months and Paris, seven months.
Examples are: planned curative therapy (stem cell transplantation), massive iron overload with consecutive organopathy considered to further reduce life expectancy, or massive iron overload that is judged to significantly reduce the quality of life (QOL).
"Life expectancy usually decreases because there's a plague or there's a massive economic trauma," Mr. Muennig said.
China invested in massive expansion of education and healthcare in the 70s so that by 1979, life expectancy was 68 while in India it was only 54".
There are already massive inequalities in the state pension, with a woman in Corby expected to receive £67,000 less than someone in East Dorset due to widening gap in life expectancy.
The incredible progress of the past decade is largely attributable to massive prevention campaigns and much improved access to anti-retroviral therapy (ART), which today can extend the life expectancy of someone living with HIV to nearly that of a non-infected person.
