For how we live.
The idea that anti-ageing advances will soon add more than a year of life for every year that passes is popular in longevity circles. National death records point the other way.
The Sardinian 'Blue Zone' was a real, carefully validated finding. A separate line of work argues the world's longevity hotspots track missing birth records and old-age poverty — not diet.
The dream was 'compression of morbidity' — sickness squeezed into a short window before death. Across 183 countries the healthspan–lifespan gap instead grew to 9.6 years, and to 12.4 in the US.
Coverage access rose from 86% to 96.4% of the population in four years. The government's own target — 80 years by 2030 — is now less than a year of progress away.
Age-standardised disability-adjusted life-years fell 12.6% since 2010, but the raw total rose 6.1% to 2.80 billion. Anxiety, depression and diabetes rose fastest even after adjusting for ageing.