Broadcast Retirement Network's Jeffrey Snyder discusses whether science can extend human life with University of Chicago Illinois' S. Jay Olshansky, PhD. Jeffrey H. Snyder, Broadcast Retirement ...

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.

New figures show people in Scotland are spending a greater proportion of their life in poor health than previously.

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 ...

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.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the average life expectancy was 75.8 years for males, 81.1 years for females, and the average for both sexes is 78.4 years in 2023. 1 ...

There has been a sharp drop in the self-reported ‘healthy life expectancy’ of the population, according to figures published ...