used as a synonym for life expectancy in demography. Demography is the statistical study of populations, especially the human beings. Longevity In these days people are living longer, a person could live more than 100 years old today. Apparently, this is caused by a gene. In the past, a long and heathy life seems an impossible achievement, but now it is possible. In fact, there are many people over the age of 80 who has no chronic diseases. There are some places with communities, where healthy old age is typical. People from these communities think that the secret of their long life is their diet and lifestyle. This information is unreliable; therefore, scientists are looking to genetic factors. Scientists found out that longevity is also due to environmental factors. Also researches concluded that in 19th century there were genetic factors that benefit the men centenarians more than the women, but today the results are in a different way, today genetic factors benefit woman.