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.

Human life expectancy is increasing at a slower rate than it did in the 20th century, a new study of 10 wealthy countries hints. During the 20th century, improvements in public health and medicine ...

Results found that life expectancy declined in all 50 states and the District of Columbia from 2019 to 2020, mainly due to COVID and "unintentional injuries," such as drug overdoses, ...

U.S. life expectancy rose last year — by more than a year — but still isn't close to what it was before the COVID-19 pandemic.. The 2022 rise was mainly due to the waning pandemic, Centers for ...

Life expectancy in 2021 was highest among both Asian women (85.6 years) and men (81.2 years), the CDC data shows. Hispanic women were the only other group with a life expectancy greater than 80 years.

Overall, women's life expectancy by birth cohort grew from 73.8 to 84.1 years, while men's rose from 62.8 to 80.3 years. The study also found that longevity for men typically plateaued around 1950.

I n August 2022, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that over the last two years, Black Americans’ life expectancy declined to about 71 years old, six years lower than their ...

Life expectancy dropped in 2020 in every U.S. state, mainly due to COVID-19 and was the lowest average in nearly two decades. Hawaii had the highest.

The average life expectancy for Americans shortened by over seven months last year, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That decrease follows an already big ...

From 2019 to 2020, U.S. life expectancy declined by almost 2 years according to the Center Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the worst two-year decline since 1921-1923.

Key Takeaways. Life expectancy decreased in all 50 states from 2018 to 2021. New Mexico had the largest decrease (-5.4%, from 77.2 years to 73 years) and Massachusetts had the smallest (-0.6% ...

In North Dakota, for example, male life expectancy jumped 10 years from 66.4 in 1900 to 76.5 in 1950, but only one year, 77.8, from 1950 to 2000. Data reflects the state in which a person died ...