[DM] "One note on the global revolution in longevity"

[rfmcdonald]

I've a post up starting from a recent Bloomberg article, Dani Bloomfield's "It’s the Best Time to Be Born as Life Expectancy Tops 70", reacting to the paper in The Lancet "Global, regional, and national age–sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013", is available in its entirety online. We are broadly speaking living in uncharted territory.