Topic
Global health
Generations and Survival, Part I: A Generation Without a Horizon
Fertility is collapsing across very different cultures for reasons that are not primarily economic. The UN records population already past its peak in 63 countries, and Africa, the one counterpoint, is following the same curve wherever cities reach.
Generations and Survival, Part II: A System Under Strain
Hospitals have become the second most attacked sector after finance, the opioid crisis is a failure of pain management rather than a drug problem, and Africa faces fewer than three doctors per 10,000 people. Health systems are straining before the demographic weight has fully arrived.
Generations and Survival, Part III: The Price of a Long Life
Global life expectancy has reached 73.8 years while healthy life expectancy stands at 63.1. That 10.7-year gap, not longevity itself, is what ageing science is actually chasing — and 2026 research has begun to give the effort a molecular foundation.