New research suggests that human life expectancy has hit its peak based on global statistics. Researcher S. Jay Olshansky explains why the focus should shift to healthspan extension.

In the US, life expectancy was 77.5 years in 2022 — a slight bump from 75.4 years in 1990 and a dip from 78.8 years in 2019. This new study doesn’t include data from the COVID-19 pandemic ...

Studies have also shown that people are living longer. Data from the United Nations World Population Prospects shows the median life expectancy in the United States went up by more than four years ...

Heart failure patients living in the most deprived postcodes are at risk of dying six and a half months earlier than patients ...

Life expectancy in the US is expected to increase from 78.3 years in 2022 to 80.4 years in 2050, according to forecasting models from the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics ...

In the past century, average life expectancy has doubled from 32 years in 1900 to 71 years in 2021, according to Our World in Data.Advancements in medicine and technology allowed us to live longer ...