Life Expectancy
News and resources on current life expectancy - lets see how it changes over time
Congratulations - you've survived another year... unfortunately your risk of dying goes up another 9% next year, and every year after that - that's why at the moment you can't beat the exponential risk of death.Resources
Life Expectancy graphs and maps - Our World in DataLife expectancy: 120,000 numbers in just four minutes - BBC News
Fascinating data visualisation of life expectancy for 200 countries over 200 years.
Human Mortality Database - various institutions
Contains original calculations of death rates and life tables for national populations as well as the input data used in constructing those tables.
Recent News
Japan annual birth rate nearly half a million below death rate
Guardian - 27-Dec-2018A stark example of how birth rate falls below in replacement level in advanced economies
Wrong weight 'can cost four years of life'
BBC - 31-Oct-2018Massive study confirms that being overweight dramatically shortens life expectancy
Life expectancy progress stops in UK
BBC - 25-Sep-2018Since 2011 living beyond 90 years old has become increasingly rarer due to still unknown reasons
