US life expectancy stagnant for 15 years despite high healthcare spending
Forbes - 03-Aug-2025Children face high risks from obesity, mental health issues, and firearms
Life Expectancy
Life Expectancy News
Scotland’s health divide: where you live shapes how long you stay well
Daily Record - 30-Jul-2025New data reveals nearly 20-year gaps in healthy life expectancy across Scottish regions
Grief that lasts can shorten lives, study finds
New Scientist - 25-Jul-2025Intense, prolonged grief may nearly double a mourner’s risk of death within a decade
Women in poor UK areas live shorter, less healthy lives
Independent - 04-Jul-2025Future health care could improve these numbers, but big differences remain
Playing tennis may help you live almost 10 years longer
HuffPost - 03-Jul-2025Tennis outperformed many other sports for lifespan gains
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
24-Jun-2025
Oldest human record not broken for 28 years – are we making any progress with maximum lifespan?
Will Jeanne Calment’s record 122 years ever be broken?
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
