life expectancy

Women tend to live longer than men. In 2021, this difference amounted to a 5-year gap in global life expectancy: the average life expectancy was 73.8 years for women versus 68.4 years for men. Read more in Free Think Why…

Over the last century, life expectancy at birth has more than double across the globe, Yet, while the average life expectancy for humans has increased significantly on a global scale, there’s still a noticeable gap in average life expectancies between different…

The latest available data from the World Bank includes both the healthcare spending per capita of 178 different countries and their average life expectancy. Find out more in Visual Capitalist Healthcare Spending and Life Expectancy, by Country By was last…

Global life expectancy rates continue to rise, which poses the question: will the trend ever stop? New research reports there’s no sign of a fixed age limit for the human body, with human beings set to keep living longer and…

In the year 1800, there were just 913 million people in the world. By 2050, there could be more than 9.5 billion, meaning the global population will have grown 10-fold in 250 years. learn more in fastcoexist The World’s Population…

Over the last many centuries, human life expectancy has very gradually lengthened with improved health and medical technologies and research. In the next 20 years, we can expect our expected life spans to be extended at a far more rapid…