Life expectancy in the United States is rising nearly as quickly as it fell at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic as deaths from Covid-19 and drug overdoses drop. After falling 2.4 years between ...

Healthy life expectancy is falling across most of the nation - and the gap between how long people can expect to live in good health in the wealthiest and most deprived areas is growing.

Death rates dropped and life expectancy rose to the highest levels since the Covid-19 pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a report released this month. It found that ...

Life expectancy in the U.S. continued to rebound in 2023 from its pandemic-era decline, increasing by nearly a year from 2022 amid fewer deaths from causes like COVID-19, heart disease and drug ...