In 1950, the global average life expectancy was only 48. Thankfully, it is now 72.6 and is expected to reach the high 80s by ...

Im Young-il, a senior official at Statistics Korea, presents South Korea's 2023 life expectancy data at the government complex in Sejong, 112 kilometers south of Seoul, on Dec. 4, 2024.

Advancements in medicine and rapid economic growth increased South Koreans’ life expectancy by 21.1 years, from 62.3 in 1970 to 83.6 in 2021, which puts South Korea in third place. The Korean ...

which show the same levels of mortality as South Korea, the South Korean government projected the North Korean life expectancy at birth as 61.3 years in 1960, 66.4 years in 1990, and 65.2 years in ...

The research, led by professor Yoon Suk-joon from Korea University’s College of ... had an average healthy life expectancy of 74.88 years — 8.66 years longer than the 66.22 years recorded ...

As many as four out of ten elderly people will be working in 2050, according to a report from a state-run research institute ...

Countries worldwide grapple with declining birthrates and aging populations, prompting governments to offer incentives for ...

South Korea, Spain and Switzerland. The U.S. doesn’t even rank in the top 40. But is also included “because we live here” and because of past, bold estimates that life expectancy in the U.S ...