In a discussion with INET’s Lynn Parramore, researcher Steven H. Woolf explains how the peculiar features of life, policy, ...

The average life expectancy in the U.S. has been on the decline for three consecutive years. A baby born in 2017 is expected to live to be 78.6 years old, which is down from 78.7 the year before, ...

An American born in 2024 can expect to live to be 79, on average. But people in other wealthy countries can expect to live longer.

While life expectancy across the U.S. declined significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study led by researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi Thompson School of Social Work & Public Health ...

A recent research letter published July 9 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), titled “The Failure of Life Expectancy to Fully Rebound to Prepandemic Levels,” paints a damning ...

The most recently available chart of U.S. life expectancy at birth from 1900 to 2021. Courtesy of the federal National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) Report Volume 72, Number 12. Formaspace offers a ...

After more than a century of steady progress, new research warns that the world’s life expectancy boom is slowing, largely because improvements in early-life mortality have already been achieved.

A new analysis published on medRxiv reveals that life expectancy in the U.S. continues to decline. In 2021, life spans decreased by another 0.4 years. In 2020, life expectancy decreased by 1.9 years ...

The drop in death rates occurred in both men and women, and across all racial and ethnic groups. Heart disease remained the ...

The average life expectancy of New Yorkers was a record-breaking 83.2 years old in 2024, achieving one of Mayor Eric Adams’s key public health promises five years ahead of schedule. Life expectancy ...