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, ...

American life expectancy dipped for a second consecutive year in 2016. This decline was once again largely fueled by soaring rates of opioid overdose deaths, according to two reports from the CDC’s ...

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 ...

Life expectancy for Californians has yet to rebound to pre-pandemic levels, and is still nearly one year shorter than it was before COVID-19, new research shows. In 2024, life expectancy for ...

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 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.

Decades of advances in medical technology and public health are causing global populations to age. While achieving longer ...