life expectancy

The life expectancy rate has steadily increased in the last fifty years worldwide. In the United States the average life expectancy in 1960 was 69, in 2008 average life expectancy was 78. The world wide average life expectancy in 1960 was 52, in 2008 average life expectancy was 68.

Infant death rate in the United States in 1970 for every 1000 birth there are 20 deaths, in 2009 for every 1000 birth there are 6 deaths. Infant death rate worldwide in 1970 for every 1000 birth there are 95 deaths, in 2009 for every 1000 birth there are 43 deaths.

World population doubled from 1960 to 2010, the rate of increase of the United States was slightly then that, but still increasing. In all probably the future should bring not in population, but a population that lives longer then the previous generation.