Life expectancy is rising even in some of the world's poorest countries, according to a new study by the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metric and Evaluation (IHME). Within 23 ...

However, the COVID-19 pandemic reversed around a decade of life expectancy and HALE increase. According to the World Health Statistics 2024 report by the World Health Organization (WHO), global ...

Countries of the G7’s international life expectancy rankings, 1950–2020. Source: UN data, 2022. The data shown are the annual data for the corresponding year – not an average for the decade.

US life expectancy will sink to 66th in the world by 2050, according to a major study. Americans already die younger than their contemporaries in about 50 other countries.

According to the World Health Statistics 2024 report by the World Health Organization (WHO), global life expectancy and HALE in 2020 returned to their 2016 levels at 72.5 years and 62.8 years ...