In the years leading up to the unexpected events of March 2020, U.S. life expectancy was declining, according to a June 1 report published in the American Journal of Public Health. COVID-19, ...

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.

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 ...

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.

U.S. life expectancy fell by a year and a half in 2020, the largest one-year decline since World War II, according to research released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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 ...