GDP and Longevity

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Health is valuable to us, GDP may not capture that. But it's going to be totally key because if we are all or the majority of us now live in these longer lives, that healthy life expectancy is key. This is the first time ever in human history beyond the middle age, you can expect to become very old. So if we do age better, I think we're sitting healthy life expectancy. That will, I think also pay for itself in terms of GDP. We've got to make sure our health catches up with those longer lives. And we've got to made sure our productive potential extends as then we can finance those longer lives."

Co-host Janet Bush talks with Andrew J. Scott. Scott is professor of economics at London Business School; his work focuses on the economics of longevity. He's co-founder of the Longevity Forum and a member of the World Economic Forum's Council on Healthy Aging and Longevity, topics that are very much the focus of the McKinsey Health Institute. His book The 100-Year Life has sold more than a million copies in 15 languages. In this podcast, he covers topics including the following: