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Life Expectancy

Life Expectancy News

Independent - 25-Mar-2025

Wealth and location are cutting years off lives in poorer areas

University of Jyväskylä - 12-Mar-2025

Following WHO exercise guidelines doesn’t guarantee a longer life

Time Magazine - 07-Mar-2025

Women outlive men—except in medicine, where unique challenges may erase the advantage

Sky News - 05-Mar-2025

A study finds that men with higher sperm motility have a greater life expectancy

BBC - 03-Mar-2025

Mortality rates have improved, but experts warn of rising risks and health inequalities

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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

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

16-Feb-2016

Relief for the many people who think their coffee habit is a guilty pleasure