First Nations people living in the remote Northern Territory are still not expected to reach their 70th birthday. A rare ...

Life expectancy for indigenous males was just 71.9 years and 75.6 years for females. Over the past 15 years since the Closing the Gap program was launched, only small improvements have been made ...

New research suggests that human life expectancy has hit its peak based on global statistics. Researcher S. Jay Olshansky explains why the focus should shift to healthspan extension.

Overall, life expectancy in the US fell more than two and a half years since the start of the pandemic — down to 76.1 years in 2021, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and ...

Between 2019 and 2021, the life expectancy in the United States dropped from around 79 to 76 years. But men have died of Covid at a higher rate than women. The reasons for this are complicated.

In 2000, life expectancy ranged from an average of 70.5 years for Americans at the lowest end to 83.1 years for those in the highest group — a difference of 12.6 years.