Health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE) in 2023 was 66.9 years, nearly two years lower than in 2019 and 2020, according to new ...

U.S. life expectancy fell to 77.3 years in 2020, marking a 1.5 year drop from 78.8 years in 2019, according to a July 21 CDC report. It’s the largest one-year drop since World War II. The report ...

The average life expectancy in the U.S. has been on the decline for three consecutive years. A baby born in 2017 is expected to live to be 78.6 years old, which is down from 78.7 the year before, ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON - Life expectancy in the United States continued to decline in 2021 despite the availability of life-saving COVID-19 vaccines, according to a new analysis. The findings, published this week ...

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 ...

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.

Decades of advances in medical technology and public health are causing global populations to age. While achieving longer ...

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, an increase in life expectancy was driven mainly by improvements in sanitation, housing, and education, causing a steady decline in early and ...