UK mortality crisis: falling behind peer nations
The Health Foundation - 20-May-2025Drug deaths and stalled progress fuel UK's widening health gap with other wealthy countries
Life Expectancy
Life Expectancy News
Why ageing better matters more than living longer
The Guardian - 15-May-2025Science, better habits, and new ideas about work will help us enjoy longer live
Ultra-processed foods linked to thousands of early deaths, study finds
BBC - 28-Apr-2025Diets high in packaged foods may shorten lifespan, though the exact cause remains unclear
Action needed to address men’s health crisis in England
Independent - 24-Apr-2025Health leaders call for public input on a national strategy to close the life expectancy gap
Healthy lifestyle at 50 can significantly boost life expectancy
Diabetes.co.uk - 13-Apr-2025New study shows controlling key cardiovascular risk factors leads to a longer, healthier life
Life Expectancy Resources
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British Society for Research on Ageing (BSRA)
Scientific society which promotes and funds research into the biology of ageing
Human Mortality Database (HMD)
World´s leading scientific data resource on mortality in developed countries
What is life expectancy?
Demographer Philip Cohen explains life expectancy with a simple example using real data
Behavior, Health, and Aging
Book that offers a stimulating array of multiple aspects of the aging process and of factors that affect it written by Stephen B. Manuck
Life Expectancy graphs and maps
The world map shows the latest data published by the United Nations for life expectancy
Life Expectancy Blog Posts
12-Jul-2024
Are Wimbledon champions really getting older?
Has this century seen extraordinarily long-lived Wimbledon champions, or are winners over 30 years of age the new normal?
23-May-2024
If you stopped ageing today, how long would you live?
Not as long as you might think. For radical life extension we need to reverse ageing.
28-Jun-2023
Exponential Increase in Mortality and Diseases
The data and science behind the exponential growth in mortality with age
13-Feb-2023
Can love defeat death?
Health and life expectancy are affected by love, sex and marriage
16-Feb-2016
A coffee a day keeps the grim reaper away
Relief for the many people who think their coffee habit is a guilty pleasure
