Key Takeaways “Healthiest country” rankings tend to focus on a nation's current health conditions and systems, while longevity rankings reflect decades of habits and policies. You don't need to move ...

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 ...

Once driven by dramatic drops in early-life mortality, life expectancy gains are now losing momentum, signaling that today’s generations may never match the near-linear longevity climb of the past.

Figures for national life expectancy by country tend to be within bandwidths. At the moment, the US is relegated to the lower end by comparison with the rest of the world, one rank above Cuba. That is ...

The United States is expected to make only minor gains in life expectancy over the next few decades, and this minimal improvement highlights an “alarming trajectory of health challenges” facing the ...

Gurven is distinguished professor of anthropology at the University of California-Santa Barbara and the author of “Seven Decades: How We Evolved to Live Longer.” We’re living in the age of the ...

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 ...