As death rates decline, life expectancy increases. Life expectancy at birth is very sensitive to reductions in the death rates of children, because each child that survives adds many years to the ...

Global life expectancy at birth recovered from a two-year decline in 2022 but has yet to return to the record high hit in 2019. The most recent figures available from the World Bank indicate ...

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.

It found that life expectancy at birth rose to 78.4 years in 2023, nearly a full year more than the life expectancy of 77.5 years in 2022, the CDC said. For males, it increased to 75.8 in 2023 ...