This animated map shows each country’s life expectancy from 1950 to 2021. You can see just how much advancements in technology, public health, and well-being have impacted life expectancy. Learn more ...

Life expectancy is the average number of years a person is expected to live. Depending on the healthcare, food, lifestyle, and living standards of a particular country, life expectancy changes. Life ...

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A new study released in JAMA finds life expectancy has still not bounced back from pre-pandemic 2019 levels, attributing the ...

Figures from the Office for National Statistics show healthy life expectancy vastly differed across the nation, with women ...

Large differences in life expectancy between American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) individuals vs other US residents have been underestimated.

To obtain an up to date understanding of population trends in life expectancy and healthy ageing, we undertook a systematic review to (a) synthesise evidence about trends in health expectancies in ...

In 2020, there were just three states where older adults outnumbered children—Maine, Vermont and Florida—but in 2024, this ...