During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, an increase in life expectancy was driven mainly by improvements in sanitation, housing, and education, causing a steady decline in early and ...

Global life expectancy at birth recovered from a two-year decline in 2022 but has yet to return to the record high hit in 2019. The most recent figures available from the World Bank indicate ...

After decades of progress, life expectancy — long regarded as a singular benchmark of a nation’s success — peaked in 2014 at 78.9 years, then drifted downward even before the coronavirus ...

Human life expectancy has just about peaked, according to a study published Monday in the journal Nature Aging, and barring a transformative breakthrough in medical science, people will top out at ...

Workers need to understand their longevity to ensure they save enough for retirement. Life expectancy calculators can help people make an educated estimate of how long they will live. People ...