An American born in 2024 can expect to live to be 79, on average. But people in other wealthy countries can expect to live longer.

While overall life expectancy rose, infant mortality remains a challenge. View the latest data from the CDC.

Life expectancy hits all-time high at 79 years in 2024 as U.S. drug overdose deaths decline by 26.2%, reports CDC data.

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, ...

U.S. residents are now living to the ripe old age of 79 on average, federal officials say — the highest point ever recorded.

While life expectancy across the U.S. declined significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study led by researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi Thompson School of Social Work & Public Health ...

American life expectancy dipped for a second consecutive year in 2016. This decline was once again largely fueled by soaring rates of opioid overdose deaths, according to two reports from the CDC’s ...

A new surge in life expectancy reflects the nation’s recovery from the COVID-19 epidemic and the decline in drug overdoses, experts agree.

The most recently available chart of U.S. life expectancy at birth from 1900 to 2021. Courtesy of the federal National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) Report Volume 72, Number 12. Formaspace offers a ...

After more than a century of steady progress, new research warns that the world’s life expectancy boom is slowing, largely because improvements in early-life mortality have already been achieved.

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 ...