Longer life expectancies have redefined retirement planning conversations and have raised the stakes for saving.

What’s Changed About Life Expectancy—and Why It Matters People are living longer nowadays. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the average life expectancy was 75.8 years ...

According to the CDC’s latest data, U.S. life expectancy at birth reached 79.0 years of age as of 2024, the highest on record and a full 0.6-year increase from the prior year. More relevant for ...

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.

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.

Singapore tops the 2025 “healthiest country” rankings, but places like Japan still lead in life expectancy. Learn why ...

It is easy to see the rationale behind wanting to have such a measure: what is the point of increasing life expectancy if ...

Local officials respond to a report that reveals a 17-year life expectancy gap between two Wilmington neighborhoods.