This is the main idea behind life expectancy. Life expectancy is a statistical measure of how long a person is expected to live, based on factors like age, gender, and health conditions.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...