For much of the 20th century, the average lifespan in developed countries increased steadily, adding about three years each ...

Australia's life expectancy from birth has fallen again slightly for the second year and dropped in global rankings. The life expectancy for an Australian girl born today is 85.1 years, ...

Australia has made progress in reducing socio-economic inequalities in life expectancy since the late 2010s, according to new ...

Data analysis showed that Australia has been the best performer in life expectancy at birth since the early 1990s, leading its peer countries by 1.26–3.95 years for women and by 0.97–4.88 ...

More information: Sheridan E. Rodda et al, Inequalities in Quality-Adjusted Life Expectancy in Australia by Educational Attainment, PharmacoEconomics (2025). DOI: 10.1007/s40273-025-01517-9.

Older generations will transfer trillions of dollars in wealth to younger generations in coming decades, but how will it be ...

When two people enter an experiment that predicts when they will die. That’s the premise of The Life Experiment by Canberra ...

New research suggests that human life expectancy has hit its peak based on global statistics. Researcher S. Jay Olshansky explains why the focus should shift to healthspan extension.

In North Dakota, for example, male life expectancy jumped 10 years from 66.4 in 1900 to 76.5 in 1950, but only one year, 77.8, from 1950 to 2000. Data reflects the state in which a person died ...