NEW YORK--Humanity is hitting the upper limit of life expectancy, according to a new study. Advances in medical technology and genetic research — not to mention larger numbers of people making it to ...

Observed and forecasted cohort life expectancy: The observed and forecasted values are separated by the black vertical dashed line in 1938. The red line shows the best practice, the blue line the ...

The Department of Health and Social Care has shared a fresh update on life expectancy in the UK. The department says it is ...

Among Japanese babies born in 2019, 27.2% of boys and 51.1% of girls are expected to live to 90. The average life expectancy in Japan in 2019 was 87.45 years for women and 81.41 years for men. Annual ...

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Life expectancy improvements among children and young adults have dropped sharply in wealthy countries Older adults’ longer lives can’t fully compensate for the slowdown in early-life mortality ...

KAWASAKI--For a city perhaps better known as an industrial hub with belching smokestacks, it may come as a surprise that a leafy residential area in its far western corner has the highest average life ...

Since the early 20th century, sustained declines in mortality have driven steady increases in life expectancy, particularly in high-income countries. Several studies have reported that this ...

Life expectancy is one of the clearest mirrors of a community’s health, and in one Southern state that reflection is troubling. South Carolina residents are now expected to live roughly four years ...