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The U.S. death rate in 2025 was 4.6% lower than in 2024, marking a record low, according to provisional data.

What’s Changed About Life Expectancy—and Why It Matters People are living longer nowadays. According to the Centers for ...

Human life expectancy has potentially been pushed to the max, new research suggests. The recent increase in people's longevity appears to be slowing down despite new developments in medicine, ...

Death rates for American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) are far higher than reported in official vital statistics, according to a new study led by a Boston University School of Public Health ...

Jonathan Wosen is STAT’s West Coast biotech & life sciences reporter. You can reach Jonathan on Signal at jwosen.27. Over the past 150 years, humanity has unleashed unimaginable energy by splitting ...

The average life expectancy in the U.S. is now 77.5 years old, according to provisional 2022 data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That represents an increase of 1.1 years ...

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has thought again about our life expectancy calculations. Why life expectancy ...