Exponential Increase in Mortality and Diseases
The data and science behind the exponential growth in mortality with age
Life Expectancy
Life Expectancy News
US and UK adults experience higher midlife death rates compared to other nations
Oxford Population Health - 21-Mar-2024
Alarming trends in preventable deaths like drug overdoses, accidents, and suicides
Read more...Researchers discovered eight things you can do to potentially live longer
Live Forever Club - 23-Feb-2024
Study highlights the power we have to improve our longevity through everyday choices.
Read more...COVID-19 and inequality cast a long shadow on UK life expectancy
The Health Foundation - 23-Feb-2024
Experts calling for action to improve basic needs and address inequalities
Read more...UK life expectancy figures expose geographical inequalities
Evening Standard - 26-Jan-2024
Pandemic takes toll, rural and deprived areas see biggest life expectancy drops
Read more...For every year you spend in school, your life gets 2% longer!
The Guardian - 23-Jan-2024
Skipping classes may be as harmful for your health as smoking
Read more...Life Expectancy Resources
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The Longevity Imperative
How to Build a Healthier and More Productive Society to Support Our Longer Lives, written by Andrew Scott
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
British Society for Research on Ageing (BSRA)
Scientific society which promotes and funds research into the biology of ageing
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 Blog Posts
28-Jun-2023
13-Feb-2023
Can love defeat death?
Health and life expectancy are affected by love, sex and marriage
09-Sep-2015
Under 44? Get ready to live forever!
A look at the latest UK life expectancy at 65 statistics - annual increase has been growing since 1960
03-Nov-2014
NICE will have to approve all one-off interventions as life expectancy increases
What to do when quality-adjusted life years could mean many, many years?
21-Oct-2014
Classic exponential growth in age distribution of older UK citizens
1 in 50 people are over 85 today - that's 20x the percentage who reached that age in 1881
