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.
Georgia experienced one of the largest increases in life expectancy in the nation in 2022, rising 1.6 years, according to a new U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released Thursday ...
Researchers attribute the rise in U.S. life expectancy, which reached 79 years in 2024, to the end of the pandemic and a drop in deaths from heart disease, cancer and drug overdoses.
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.
Life expectancy across Africa continues to vary widely, reflecting disparities in healthcare access, disease burden and living conditions, according to new data for 2025.Algeria tops the continent ...
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. life expectancy rose to 79 years in 2024 — the highest mark in American history. It’s the result of not only the dissipation of the COVID-19 pandemic, but also waning death rates ...