Yet between 1960 and 2015, life expectancy in the U.S. increased by about two months per year on average. In 1960, newborns could expect to live slightly more than 71 years.

The latest analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) investigates why the racial gap in black and white life expectancy is shrinking — even though the primary problem is ...

Life expectancy in the United States dropped in 2015 for the first time since 1993, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The average life expectancy at birth decreased by 0 ...

For the second year in a row, the average life expectancy for Americans has decreased. American men now live an average of 76.1 years — a slight decline from from 76.3 years in 2015 — and ...

Life expectancy in the United States was 78.8 years in 2015, a decrease of 0.1 year from 2014, according to a report from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics.

Life expectancy climbs worldwide but people spend more years living with illness and disability Date: August 26, 2015 Source: The Lancet Summary: Global life expectancy has risen by more than six ...

And now comes the life-expectancy gap. It may change the national conversation over Social Security and an aging society — for the worse.

The life expectancy gap is widening markedly, and this is causing a big change in the pattern of lifetime government benefits.

The life expectancy gap is widening markedly, and this is causing a big change in the pattern of lifetime government benefits.

For the first time since the early 1960s, life expectancy in the United States has declined for the second year in a row, according to a CDC report released Thursday. American men can now expect ...

Life expectancy in Norway has steadily increased over the last few decades, thanks to the reduction in the infant mortality rate. The nation also has a high rate of people keeping active into old age.

This study was designed to estimate the contribution of age- and disease-specific mortality, particularly that attributable to chronic noncommunicable diseases and at-birth life expectancy (LE) in ...