Life expectancy

For decades, those on the political Left have critiqued the social structures that used to bind us.

U.S. Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz asked the Department of Health and Human Services to develop a strategy to analyze the causes of falling life expectancy in the United States.

The Human Development Indices and Indicators report ranks each country by its quality of education, health care, income and other key aspects of life.

People in some countries could live for nearly 2 years less.

Of the 50 countries with the highest life expectancy, the U.S. had the lowest improvement in life expectancy between 2000 and 2016, at just 1.6 years.

Putin's fourth term as president began with a move to raise Russians' retirement age—and it is costing him and his party at the polls.

The test measures nine factors that can calculate a person's biological, rather than chronological, age.

Researchers were surprised by how much these habits appeared to boost life expectancy.

Drinking too much might take 30 minutes off your life.

Longevity and behavioral aging aren't necessarily related processes; just because we extend one doesn't mean the other gets pulled along with it.

A new study decided on the world's "smartest" cities based on digital services, housing, government and more. Two U.S. cities made the top 10.

About one in five deaths around the world can be attributed to poor diet, according to a study titled "The Global Burden of Disease."

A new study shows that despite the U.S. spending more on health care than any other nation, huge inequalities persist when it comes to life expectancy.

Wealth and health are intrinsically linked in America, according to research.

South Korea has some of the lowest obesity rates in the world.

Japan's ageing population has seen scientists want to redefine when somebody is old.

Americans born in 2015 saw their life expectancy decrease by a month.

A report has assessed the experiences of 16-24-year-old females across every local authority in England and Wales.

In Mexico's northern states, life expectancy fell by as much as three years.

Japan has a lot of really, really old people.

The findings come from a new study conducted by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

The report's authors warn that their findings may have been exacerbated by the Coalition government's cuts.