By 2030, Korean women are projected to become the first population in human history with an average life expectancy above 90 years — exceeding even Japan — according to a Lancet study of 35 industrialized nations, in a demographic shift driven by improvements in cardiovascular health and near-universal healthcare access

In February 2017, an international team led by Majid Ezzati, professor of global environmental health at Imperial College London, published a paper in The Lancet projecting future life expectancy across 35 industrialised countries. The study, conducted in collaboration with the World Health Organization, used a novel statistical method called Bayesian model ensemble — combining the [...] The post By 2030, Korean women are projected to become the first population in human history with an average