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

The U.S. has the shortest life expectancy among English-speaking countries, while Australia ranks highest, according to a study published in the BMJ Journal. American men and women live about five and ...

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.

New figures show people in Scotland are spending a greater proportion of their life in poor health than previously.

This story and visualization are part of our new “Data In Your Life” series, in which we mine public databases to tell quick stories about the world around us. Life expectancy in Kansas declined in ...

Figures for national life expectancy by country tend to be within bandwidths. At the moment, the US is relegated to the lower end by comparison with the rest of the world, one rank above Cuba. That is ...

Walk into just about any American coffee shop these days, and odds are the conversation skips right from politics to TikTok trends to – you guessed it – the cost of healthcare, the outbreak of the day ...