South Carolina residents are dying younger—and not by chance. In a country already struggling with declining longevity, the ...

Life expectancy in the US fell from 78.9 years in 2019 to 76.6 years in 2021. Life expectancy in the United States took another hit in 2021, furthering a dramatic decline from 2020 that was the ...

The duration of human life, a fundamental measure of societal well-being, is a subject of continuous interest and rigorous ...

In the years leading up to the unexpected events of March 2020, U.S. life expectancy was declining, according to a June 1 report published in the American Journal of Public Health. COVID-19, ...

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.

Researchers found that life expectancy growth in wealthy nations has dramatically slowed since 1939. Once driven by major reductions in child mortality, longevity gains are now limited by slower ...

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 ...

A new analysis published on medRxiv reveals that life expectancy in the U.S. continues to decline. In 2021, life spans decreased by another 0.4 years. In 2020, life expectancy decreased by 1.9 years ...

U.S. life expectancy fell by a year and a half in 2020, the largest one-year decline since World War II, according to research released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

It's not just GDP, unaffordability and unemployment; a number of basic social indicators in Canada are getting worse ...