In a new study published on September 29 in the Royal Society's Open Science journal, scientists analyzed new data on 'super-longevity' people aged 110 and over and people aged 105 to 110.
Although the risk of death often increases as people age, the results of the study show that this risk is always stable and maintained at approximately 50-50.
Researchers also said that, based on available data to date, humans can live to at least 130 years old, but using the newly discovered exogenous method will lead to the conclusion that 'there is no limit to human age'. This result is consistent with similar statistical analysis conducted on data sets of super-old people.
The first data set used by the research team is a new document published by the International Database on Life expectancy, including more than 1,100 super-longevists from 13 countries. Meanwhile, the second data set includes people aged 105 and over in Italy between January 2009 and December 2005.
Head of the research team, statistics professor Anthony Davison at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) said that their research has a reasonable approach, because "any research on maximum lifespan, whether statistical or biological, will be related to excretion law".
The study author revealed that the research team analyzed people with a relatively rare lifespan of over 100 years. Even in people who have reached the age of 110, the chance to live to 130 is only 1/1 million people. Although rare, it is not unlikely. According to Professor Davison, in this century, we will see more and more people reach this age threshold thanks to great achievements in medicine and society.
To date, the oldest person in the world has been recognized as Mrs. Jeanne Calment of France. She passed away in 1997 at the age of 122. Although there is still much controversy about Mr. Calment's real age, some experts said that they have confirmed the evidence.
The person recognized as the longest living person in the world today is Kane Tanaka in Japan. Mr. Tanaka was confirmed to have been born on January 2, 1903, at the age of 118.
