Chicago health officials attributed the overall improvement to a drop in COVID-19 deaths, after leaving the worst years of the pandemic behind, as well as fewer people dying early from chronic ...

Experts say that the steady rise in life expectancy is slowing down because we’ve run out of ways to improve our mortality.

People are living longer and longer lives than before, but the pace of growth in life expectancy has dropped sharply since the early twentieth century 1. José Andrade at the Max Planck Institute for ...

Another way to look at this is via “survival curves,” which show the percent of people born in a certain year who survive to a specific age: ...

According to Air Quality Life Index (AQLI) report (2025), this severe pollution has become the top risk factor for mortality in Bangladesh, reducing average life expectancy by 5.5 years ...

A vet nurse has shared a list of the dog breeds that have the highest life expectancies in the UK, and the results my ...

By the end of 2024, average life expectancy in China reached 79 years for the first time, according to health authorities who ...

A thorough health evaluation of one of the world's oldest people, Maria Branyas, suggests that one of the reasons she lived ...

What's remarkable about China's growth isn't just those giant statistics, but how this economic transformation has improved ...

Every person on the planet is feeling the weight of polluted air. According to the Air Quality Life Index (AQLI) 2025 report, exposure to dangerous levels of PM₂.₅ a fine particulate pollutant, ...

Here's what you will learn when you read this story: Researchers found that the gains in average life expectancy during the last century are unlikely to continue. The reasons for that increase were a ...

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