The duration of human life, a fundamental measure of societal well-being, is a subject of continuous interest and rigorous analysis. Life expectancy, statistically defined as the average time a person ...

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) recently released a report finding that much of the United States is not keeping up with worldwide gains in life expectancy. Overall, "more than ...

Life expectancy in the United States is rising nearly as quickly as it fell at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic as deaths from Covid-19 and drug overdoses drop. After falling 2.4 years between 2019 ...

Humans are living 20 years longer than they were in 1950, according to new research with all 204 countries and territories studied reporting declines in their mortality rates since then. But vast ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Charlene Rhinehart is a CPA , CFE, chair of an Illinois CPA Society committee, and has a ...

Life expectancy for females in the UK has returned to pre-pandemic levels – though males have yet to show a similar recovery, new estimates suggest. A baby girl born between 2022 and 2024 can expect ...