While heart disease and cancer remain top causes, notable declines in overdose and COVID-19 deaths drove the improvement.

Americans born in 2024 can expect to live 79.0 years, the highest figure the federal government has ever recorded, while the ...

Last month, a new research study published by a University of Wisconsin assistant professor in the La Follette School of Public Affairs Héctor Pifarreé i Arolas concluded that the average life ...

(CNN) — New mortality data from the federal government suggests that life expectancy probably hit another record high in 2025, as death rates have continued to fall since the height of the Covid-19 ...

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More people globally are living longer, but many of those extra years are spent experiencing disability and diseases, according to a new report in Lancet Public Health.“The central finding is that we ...

We've seen dramatic increases in life expectancy over the 19th and 20th centuries, thanks to healthier diets, medical advances and many other quality-of-life improvements. But after nearly doubling ...

As people in other rich countries continued to enjoy ever longer lives, life expectancy for Americans flatlined after 2010, ...

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The average life expectancy of Japanese women and men increased in 2025 from the previous year as mortality rates for some forms of cancer and heart disease declined, with women ranking first in the ...