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.

A new study from researchers at the Yale School of Public Health found major disparities in life expectancy between individual U.S. states.

Fact checked by Nick Blackmer Key Takeaways Average life expectancy in the year 1800 was no older than 40 years globally, but longer for those who survived childhood.Modern life expectancies of around ...

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 new Boston Public Health Commission report found Black women in Boston die at 80, on average, six years earlier than other women. Black men average nine fewer years of life than others, living to 72 ...

Chicagoans are expected to die earlier in West Garfield Park than in any other neighborhood in the city. Sammie and Angela ...