While heart disease and cancer remain top causes, notable declines in overdose and COVID-19 deaths drove the improvement.
While life expectancy across the U.S. declined significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study led by researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi Thompson School of Social Work & Public Health ...
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, ...
The population of the 27-nation European Union will peak in 2029 before falling in the coming decades, according to a report ...
New mortality data from the federal government suggests that life expectancy probably hit another record high in 2025, as ...
The US death rate just hit a record low, and there's reason to hope the trend will continue.
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 ...