Global life expectancy at birth recovered from a two-year decline in 2022 but has yet to return to the record high hit in 2019. The most recent figures available from the World Bank indicate average ...

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, an increase in life expectancy was driven mainly by improvements in sanitation, housing, and education, causing a steady decline in early and ...

Humans are living 20 years longer than they were in 1950, according to new research with all 204 countries and territories studied reporting declines in their mortality rates since then. But vast ...

Nigeria is one of the few countries in the world that has a life expectancy of below 60 years. Unsurprisingly, Nigeria made the list with a few other countries. In 2015, life expectancy in Nigeria was ...

The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the planet's greatest driver of year-to-year climate swings, shapes temperature, ...

A person's age is one of the best predictors of how much longer they are likely to live. This is the main idea behind life expectancy. Life expectancy is a statistical measure of how long a person is ...