It’s probably not a great surprise that someone living in the Loop can typically expect a longer life than people living in large swaths of the South Side. What may be surprising is just how wide the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

From 2014 to 2015, the age-adjusted death rate for the total US population increased 1.2%. Life expectancy in the United States was 78.8 years in 2015, a decrease of 0.1 year from 2014, according to a ...

The latest analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) investigates why the racial gap in black and white life expectancy is shrinking — even though the primary problem is that it ...

For the second year in a row, the average life expectancy for Americans has decreased. American men now live an average of 76.1 years — a slight decline from from 76.3 years in 2015 — and American ...

There's no doubt that great disparities exist around the world when it comes to life expectancy. But an Indiana University report reveals that there are also significant gaps in life expectancy within ...

And now comes the life-expectancy gap. It may change the national conversation over Social Security and an aging society — for the worse. We all know that the United States is aging, but probably few ...

Life expectancy at birth of Bulgaria’s population calculated for the period 2013 - 2015 was 74.5 years, 0.2 years lower than it had been for the period 2012 – 2014, the country’s stistical office NSI ...

Sweden is known for high life expectancy and economic egalitarianism, yet in recent decades it has lost ground in both respects. This study tracked income inequality in old-age life expectancy and ...