Tag: life expectancy
The brief’s key findings are: Mortality rates, which determine life expectancy, are a key factor in cost projections for the Social Security program. Mortality rates consistently improve over time, but the pace of progress varies by year, by age, and by socioeconomic status. Over the past 40 years, progress has been driven by medical advances, better…
Probably not yet, but higher-income couples should be thinking in terms of their mid-90s. A recent press request centered on the premise that people now have a good chance to live to 100 and what that might mean for achieving a secure retirement. I had been thinking about mortality rates and life expectancy recently, and…
