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.

In the US, life expectancy was 77.5 years in 2022 — a slight bump from 75.4 years in 1990 and a dip from 78.8 years in 2019. This new study doesn’t include data from the COVID-19 pandemic ...

It looked at data on life expectancy at birth collected between 1990 and 2019 from the eight countries with the highest life expectancies – Australia, France, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Spain ...

Switzerland leads the way with an average life expectancy of 84.2 years, followed closely by Spain at 84 years and Italy at 83.8 – all about three or more years longer than the UK, which ranked ...

Spain's life expectancy was a relatively poor 61.8 years in 1950 but has since shot up, particularly during the economic miracle of the 1960s and following the end of the Francoist dictatorship in ...

Image Credit: Solarisys/Shutterstock.com Life expectancy before the 19 th century ... high-income countries such as Switzerland, Sweden, Spain, South Korea, Japan, Italy, France, Australia ...

Spain and Switzerland. The U.S. doesn’t even rank in the top 40. But is also was included “because we live here” and because of past, bold estimates that life expectancy in the U.S. might ...

The rise in human life expectancy has slowed significantly in the past couple of decades, with only a small percentage of recent births expected to reach the age of 100 years, an analysis in ...

Meanwhile, the average US life expectancy was 78.8, lower than nearly all other high-income countries, including Canada's, which was 82.3 years. And this was before the pandemic, which only made ...