The latest findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) 2021, published today in The Lancet, forecast that global life expectancy will increase by 4.9 years in males and 4.2 years in ...

Global average life expectancy is forecast to increase to around 78.1 years of age in 2050, a rise of 4.5 years, ... Map ...

Life expectancy around the world is expected to increase by nearly 5 years in men and more than 4 years in women during the next three decades, researchers predict. Top News U.S. News ...

In their study, published in the peer-reviewed journal BMJ Open earlier this month, Ho and colleagues compared life expectancy data from the Human Mortality Database (HMD) and World Health ...

Life expectancy in North Korea—a country often cited for its economic hardship and limited healthcare access—stood at 72.6 years in 2021, according to the World Health Organization.

Global life expectancy grew by 5.5 years between 2000 and 2016, the World Health Organization said Thursday, warning though that unequal income and access to healthcare translates into far ...

Australia has made progress in reducing socioeconomic inequalities in life expectancy since the late 2010s, according to new ...

But the U.S. is not keeping pace with peer nations. The U.S.’s global ranking in life expectancy is expected to drop from 49 th in 2022 to 66 th in 2050, said an analysis published in The Lancet ...