New mortality data from the federal government suggests that life expectancy probably hit another record high in 2025, as ...

The average life expectancy in the U.S. has been on the decline for three consecutive years. A baby born in 2017 is expected to live to be 78.6 years old, which is down from 78.7 the year before, ...

The US death rate just hit a record low, and there's reason to hope the trend will continue.

A new CDC report released Wednesday shows the U.S. death rate hit its lowest point in more than a century in 2025, suggesting ...

While life expectancy across the U.S. declined significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study led by researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi Thompson School of Social Work & Public Health ...

WASHINGTON — Americans continued to live longer in 2025 as the nation’s death rate dropped to the lowest level ever recorded, according to new provisional federal data released Thursday, reflecting ...

A recent research letter published July 9 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), titled “The Failure of Life Expectancy to Fully Rebound to Prepandemic Levels,” paints a damning ...

The definition of healthy life expectancy (HLE) is the average number of years a person would expect to live in good health ...