People in the United States can expect to live longer than ever, as death rates returned to pre-pandemic levels in 2024.

The drop in death rates occurred in both men and women, and across all racial and ethnic groups. Heart disease remained the ...

Women in Japan currently have the longest average lifespan at 86.8 years, while men in Switzerland can anticipate 81.3 years. The total US population's life expectancy in 2015 was 78.8 years, a ...

The increase signals a rebound from declines during the pandemic and progress with the opioid crisis.

Life expectancy in the United States dropped yet again as drug overdose deaths continued to climb -- taking more than 70,000 lives in 2017 -- and suicides rose, a US government report said Thursday.

It’s official: Americans are dying much sooner in life. Preliminary signals of declining health were neither a false alarm nor a statistical fluke. A reversal of American life expectancy, a downward ...