Irish Examiner view: Today’s babies may live for 105 years

Life expectancy reaches a high of 119 in Europe but is as low as 61 in Africa as poverty exacts its toll

Data shows the only child due to be born in Andorra this weekend will have the longest average life expectancy, an incredible 119 years.

Though the passage of time is relentless it is, in one context at least, becoming more flexible, more open-ended. Unicef estimates that Irish babies born in 2021 can, all going well, live to be 105 years of age — they have a very real prospect of reaching 2126.

Data shows the only child due to be born in Andorra this weekend will have the longest average life expectancy, an incredible 119 years.