People around the world are living longer again, with global life expectancy almost fully recovered from the disruption of ...

On October 2, 2026, the WHO (World Health Organization) released its latest "Global Health Estimates." The data covers the ...

Global life expectancy returns to 73.3 years, nearly back to pre-COVID levels, but healthy life expectancy still lags behind.

Global life expectancy is close to the levels seen before the Covid-19 pandemic, but the outlook for years lived in good ...

Global life expectancy increased by 6.2 years since 1990 according to a new study published in The Lancet. Over the past three decades, reductions in death from leading killers have fueled this ...

Since the 1960s, the world has witnessed a remarkable rise in life expectancy at birth, reflecting progress in healthcare, sanitation and living standards. Globally, average life expectancy increased ...

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.

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. These increases are expected to be ...

Covid-19 cut global life expectancy by almost two years when it raged from 2019 to 2021, wiping out a decade of progress, the World Health Organization said Friday. "The Covid-19 pandemic reversed the ...

A major new study has determined which countries around the world have the longest life expectancy. Researchers from the University of Southern California and Pennsylvania State University in the US ...

The average life expectancy of people across the world dropped by 1.6 years in the first two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, a new Lancet study of census and other data showed this week, and the ...

The report provides a picture of how health has changed across countries and regions between 2000 and 2023, including trends in life expectancy, causes of death and disease burden ...