New data from the Office for National Statistics shows that people born in the UK today are expected to live longer than previous generations. However, projected life expectancy for children born in ...

Life expectancy for females in the UK has returned to pre-pandemic levels – though males have yet to show a similar recovery, new estimates suggest. A baby girl born between 2022 and 2024 can expect ...

(CNN) — Life expectancy fell across the majority of high-income countries, signaling a collective and simultaneous decline among affluent nations for the first time in decades, a new study finds.

Last week, the Office for National Statistics released figures showing that life expectancy in the UK has stagnated at 79.2 years for men and 82.9 years for women. The figures have actually reduced by ...

For most of human history, life unfolded quickly and ended abruptly. In the early 19th century, global life expectancy ...

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 ...

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 in the UK has flatlined in the past two years. Is this a blip, or will we see a return to the fast improvements seen at the start of the century? Hugh Nolan, director at Spence & ...