Global life expectancy grew by 5.5 years between 2000 and 2016, the World Health Organization said Thursday, warning though that unequal income and access to healthcare translates into far shorter ...

Global life expectancy reached 73.3 years in 2023, nearly matching pre-Covid levels, but WHO data show healthy life expectancy has not fully recovered.

On October 2, 2026, the WHO (World Health Organization) released its latest "Global Health Estimates." The data covers the ...

WHO’s latest Global Health Estimates, released on 2 October 2026, provide a picture of how health has changed across ...

Global life expectancy is close to returning to its pre-Covid-19 pandemic level, but the outlook for years lived in good ...

People around the globe are living longer—but not necessarily healthier—lives, according to Mayo Clinic research. A study of 183 World Health Organization (WHO) member countries found those additional ...

Life expectancy reached 73.3 years in 2023 -- close to the 73.4 years recorded in 2019 before the pandemic struck, the World Health Organization said in its annual Global Health Estimates (GHE) report ...

Healthspan research The Mayo Clinic research team studied statistics from the WHO Global Health Observatory. This cross-sectional study provided data on life expectancy, health-adjusted life ...

Nigeria now stands as the world’s lowest life expectancy, according to a new United Nations data for 2025, which confirms a national average of just 54.9 years. This statistic, highlighted in the ...

Global life expectancy increased by five years between 2000 and 2015, the World Health Organization said Thursday, crediting progress in Africa against HIV, AIDS and malaria. The gains made over the ...