While both terms relate to the number of living years, they actually define very different concepts.
One person’s life expectancy might be different from your life expectancy and it may even change over time.
Your life spans, however, are one in the same.
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We all share it as members of the same species.
So what is the human life span?
What Is the Human Life Span?
For humans, the current accepted maximum lifespan is 122 years.
This age was achieved by Jeane Louise Calment of France.
Remarkably, Calment remained relatively healthy and mentally intact until her 122nd birthday.
Though there have certainly been claims of longer lives, none of the claims were acceptably documented and verified.
life expectancy dipped with the COVID-19 pandemic and was 76.4 in 2021 and 77.5 in 2022.
So how do we close that gap and elongate our lives?
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