Objectives We use new data and robust methods to estimate mortality levels and trends for US states and Washington DC and quantify cohort life expectancy for birth cohorts between 1941 and 2000.

In the United States, how long a person lives can vary substantially depending on where in the country they reside. Comparing the life expectancy of people born from 1900 to 2000, a study published ...

Life expectancy in the United States varies by more than 20 years depending on your race and ethnicity and where you live, according to new research. The authors call the level of health disparities ...

The family of an EMT with the Kansas City Fire Department who died in 2020 from complications of COVID-19, hug in front of the Firefighters Fountain and Memorial in Penn Valley Park. Deaths from COVID ...

Life expectancy in the USA varies by more than 20 years depending on an individual's race and ethnicity and where they live. These widespread and persistent life expectancy disparities have divided ...

This story and visualization are part of our new “Data In Your Life” series, in which we mine public databases to tell quick stories about the world around us. Life expectancy in California dropped in ...

The United States has the lowest life expectancy of all the English-speaking nations, a new study has found. Australians, meanwhile, tended to live four or five years longer than their American ...

Sergey Timonin receives funding from the Australian Research Council (DP210100401). Tim Adair receives funding from the Australian Research Council. University of Melbourne provides funding as a ...

This story and visualization are part of our new “Data In Your Life” series, in which we mine public databases to tell quick stories about the world around us. Life expectancy in South Carolina ...