For most of human history, life unfolded quickly and ended abruptly. In the early 19th century, global life expectancy ...

The state’s life expectancy was lower in 2024 than in 2019, according to an analysis, but primarily as a result of causes of death other than Covid. By Emily Baumgaertner Nunn If the nation’s largest ...

People with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) frequently live well into adulthood. Advances in treatment have significantly increased the life expectancy for this condition. The median life expectancy ...

How long you live depends on where you live, new research suggests. Americans’ life expectancy increased throughout the 20th century, although in some states, particularly in the South, people aren’t ...

Southern states like Oklahoma, Mississippi, and West Virginia have seen minimal improvements in life expectancy over the past century, with some showing less than three years of gain since 1900.

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.

Kansas ranks 28th among the 50 U.S. states in life expectancy, with the typical Sunflower State resident living a few months less than the national average. Americans born in 2021 have an average life ...