Compare this with the 1950s, when life expectancy stood at a low of 46.4 years. The world has gone a long way in prolonging ...

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 ...

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, an increase in life expectancy was driven mainly by improvements in sanitation, housing, and education, causing a steady decline in early and ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) life expectancy statistics, presented Wednesday in Geneva, place Swiss men above Icelanders, who held the top spot in the report’s last edition in 2012.

According to the health ministry, although statistical methods vary, Japanese men rank fifth in the world in terms of average life expectancy. Japanese women have been leading the world since 1985 ...