1946 was 80 years ago. The oldest boomers are reaching their 80’s now and boy howdy - there are a lot of boomers. Statistically, it makes sense that more Australians are expected to reach their 90’s in a decade.

Meanwhile, in Japan: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmzezj5e18xxo

So they’ll be raising the retirement age to 80 then.

me when famine caused by climate change, causing life expectancy to halve.

My smug knee jerk response to just say why on earth are they projecting so far.