Join the club for FREE to access the whole archive and other member benefits.

Life Expectancy

Life Expectancy News

New Scientist - 01-Oct-2025

A study of over 1,000 species finds genetics and mating behaviour shape lifespan differences

The Guardian - 27-Sep-2025

Being active cut death risk by 21%, while stress and moodiness were tied to shorter life

HuffPost - 08-Sep-2025

Life expectancy rose 18 years from 1900–1938 but only ~3 months per year after 1939

Forbes - 03-Aug-2025

Children face high risks from obesity, mental health issues, and firearms

Daily Record - 30-Jul-2025

New data reveals nearly 20-year gaps in healthy life expectancy across Scottish regions

Click on resource name for more details.

Scientific society which promotes and funds research into the biology of ageing

World´s leading scientific data resource on mortality in developed countries

Demographer Philip Cohen explains life expectancy with a simple example using real data

Book that offers a stimulating array of multiple aspects of the aging process and of factors that affect it written by Stephen B. Manuck

The world map shows the latest data published by the United Nations for life expectancy

24-Jun-2025

Will Jeanne Calment’s record 122 years ever be broken?

12-Jul-2024

Has this century seen extraordinarily long-lived Wimbledon champions, or are winners over 30 years of age the new normal?

23-May-2024

Not as long as you might think. For radical life extension we need to reverse ageing.

28-Jun-2023

The data and science behind the exponential growth in mortality with age

13-Feb-2023

Health and life expectancy are affected by love, sex and marriage