Scientists work out maximum age a person can really live to - but can YOU guess how long?

A study has revealed the maximum age a person can really live to, following research by scientists.

Researchers from Singapore biotech company Gero and the Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, New York, studied human resilience and the body's ability to recover from damage back in 2022.

Using AI to assist their research, they examined medical data from hundreds of thousands of volunteers to estimate a human's maximum lifespan.

They judged a number of factors to reach the number aside from just age, including the impacts of illness, one's lifestyle factors and the human body's ability to recover.

They found that the body's recovery powers burnt out at a point somewhere between 120 and 150 years.

The development of drugs could allow the body's ageing process to slow down enough for someone to live for up to 200 years is in action, but that does not mean 200 will become the norm anytime soon.

Other studies into the science of ageing suggest the record for the world's oldest person will probably be broken again before the beginning of the next millennium.

The Office for National Statistics claims life expectancy at birth in the UK from 2020 to 2022 was 78.6 years for males and 82.6 years for females.

This beats out the US, where it sits at around 74.8 years and 80.2 years for males and females, respectively.

The oldest known person to have ever lived is Jeanne Calment, who reached the age of 122 when she died in 1997.

In August, the world's oldest verified living person at the time, Maria Branyas Morera, died at the age of 117.

Branyas, who survived two pandemics, the 1918 Spanish flu and Covid, and two world wars, died peacefully in her sleep according to her family.

She previously attributed her longevity to 'order, tranquillity' and 'staying away from toxic people'.

Her impressive 117-year lifespan is far in excess of even the highest predicted in the UK.