{"id":206,"date":"2010-02-18T23:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T23:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jorper98.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/20\/the-aging-of-the-world-totally-made-me-think\/"},"modified":"2017-06-20T20:38:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T20:38:23","slug":"the-aging-of-the-world-totally-made-me-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/the-aging-of-the-world-totally-made-me-think\/","title":{"rendered":"The Aging of the World &#8211; totally made me think."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130821035505\/http:\/\/www.time.com:80\/time\/specials\/packages\/article\/0,28804,1963392_1963365,00.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:inline;margin:0 30px 0 0;\" title=\"Three generations of women from the same family\" src=\"http:\/\/img.timeinc.net\/time\/magazine\/archive\/covers\/2010\/1101100222_400.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"122\" height=\"161\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The current\u00a0 issue of Time Magazine (Feb 22, 2010)\u00a0\u00a0 is titled\u00a0 The Science of Living Longer.<\/p>\n<p>It was\u00a0 a very interesting issue, but I have to admit the following stats which they quoted freaked me out a bit..<\/p>\n<p>It is not the fact that we are aging, that made me wonder &#8211;\u00a0 It is how fast we are aging.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Look at the numbers:\n<ul>\n<li>The first person to live to 150 years will appear in 2150.<\/li>\n<li>Life expectancy:\n<ul>\n<li>in 1900 \u2013 47 years<\/li>\n<li>in 2000 \u2013 78 years<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>People over 80 years old worldwide:\u00a0 <\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>in 1950:\u00a0\u00a0 14.5 million<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>in 2009:\u00a0\u00a0 102 million<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>in 2050:\u00a0 304 million<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This\u00a0 last set made my head spin wild!\u00a0 &#8211; Can you imagine the social consequences?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wow!\u00a0 &#8211; talk about The Aging of the World !\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyone out there has a percentage of these numbers in relation to total worldwide population?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current\u00a0 issue of Time Magazine (Feb 22, 2010)\u00a0\u00a0 is titled\u00a0 The Science of Living Longer. It was\u00a0 a very interesting issue, but I have to admit the following stats which they quoted freaked me out a bit.. It is not the fact that we are aging, that made me wonder &#8211;\u00a0 It is how&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,468],"tags":[467],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-journey","category-thoughts-ramblings","tag-musings"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":17,"label":"Journey"},{"value":468,"label":"Thoughts and Ramblings"}],"post_tag":[{"value":467,"label":"Musings"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/jorgep-BlogPostGeneric.jpg",1024,512,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"Jorge Pereira","author_link":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/author\/jorge\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":17,"name":"Journey","slug":"journey","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":18,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":316,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":17,"category_count":316,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Journey","category_nicename":"journey","category_parent":0},{"term_id":468,"name":"Thoughts and Ramblings","slug":"thoughts-ramblings","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":478,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":229,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":468,"category_count":229,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Thoughts and Ramblings","category_nicename":"thoughts-ramblings","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":467,"name":"Musings","slug":"musings","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":477,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":114,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jorgep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}