Longevity

Longevity

What is longevity? Longevity means long life and long life means when the human reach the 60 years age in average.

To live a long life is necessary to care our body, because just so the human have the opportunity of having health years and can share with their family more years.

In the world, females have more expectancy of life than males; for example, in Japan females reach the eighty five point fifty three ages, and males the seventy eight point fifty six.

In the Unites States, females reach the eighty point ten ages, and males seventy four point eighty ages.

In Costa Rica, according to the National Institute of Statistic and Census, the average percent of people with seventy five years or more is zero point twenty two percent. Of this percent, forty five point seventy two corresponds to males and fifty four point twenty eight corresponds to females.

In general the longevity is affected by several diseases like cancer and AIDS, and vice like drugs and alcoholism.