CHRONICLE – The questions of age, lifestyle, interest in work cannot be reduced to the sole financial and accounting dimensions, however imperious these may be.
It will therefore be necessary to wait 64 years. When I’m Sixty-Four (“When I’m 64”), “QWhen I’m old and lose my hair/ In quite a few years/ Will you send me a card on Valentine’s Day…”, sang the Beatles in 1967. A Frenchman then had a life expectancy (at birth) of 67.8 years and a Frenchwoman of 75.2 years. Fifteen years later, in 1982, when François Mitterrand, President of the Republic, reduced the legal retirement age from 65 to 60 with a stroke of the pen, the average length of our stay on earth had risen to 70, 7 and 78.9 years respectively. It will be 90.3 years for a boy born last year and 92.5 years for a girl. More significantly still, a woman aged 65 in 2022 can expect to live an additional 24.3 years and a man 20.8, according to the very recent scenario of INSEE demographers.
These are indicative and reliable figures (demography is the safest human science, infinitely more so than economics) and known to all because they…
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