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  2. Life expectancy - Wikipedia

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    English life expectancy at birth averaged about 36 years in the 17th and 18th centuries, one of the highest levels in the world although infant and child mortality remained higher than in later periods. Life expectancy was under 25 years in the early Colony of Virginia, [52] and in seventeenth-century New England, about 40% died before reaching ...

  3. List of countries by past life expectancy - Wikipedia

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    Life expectancy by world region, from 1770 to 2018. This is a list of countries showing past life expectancy, ranging from 1950 to 2015 in five-year periods, as estimated by the 2017 revision of the World Population Prospects database by the United Nations Population Division. Life expectancy equals the average number of years a person born in ...

  4. Maximum life span - Wikipedia

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    A theoretical study also suggested that the maximum human life expectancy at birth is limited by the human life characteristic value δ, which is around 104 years. [ 17 ] In 2017, the United Nations conducted a Bayesian sensitivity analysis of global population burden based on life expectancy projection at birth in future decades.

  5. Scientists Explain What It Means If We’ve Reached Peak Human ...

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    The researchers found that since 1990, the average lifespan has only risen 6.5 years in the countries in the study, which causes uncertainty in expectations that human life expectancy would exceed ...

  6. The 5 states with the longest life expectancies, and the 5 ...

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    A new study suggests human life expectancy is plateauing. In 2022, life expectancy in the US was 77.5 years, but values vary across states. Hawaii has the longest life expectancy, while ...

  7. How Long You Were Expected to Live the Year You Were Born

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    From 1950 to 1960, life expectancy grew 1.5 years, compared with a jump of more than five years from 1940 to 1950, more than three years from 1930 to 1940, and more than five years from 1920 to ...

  8. List of countries by life expectancy - Wikipedia

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    UN: Estimate of life expectancy for various ages in 2023; Locations Life expectancy for population in general Life expectancy for male Life expectancy for female Sex gap; at birth bonus 0→15 at 15 bonus 15→65 at 65 bonus 65→80 at 80 at birth at 15 at 65 at 80 at birth at 15 at 65 at 80 at birth at 15 at 65 at 80 Hong Kong: 85.51: 0.21: 70 ...

  9. Don't expect human life expectancy to grow much more ...

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    Women continue to live longer than men and life expectancy improvements are still occurring — but at a slowing pace, the researchers found. In 1990, the average amount of improvement was about 2 1/2 years per decade. In the 2010s, it was 1 1/2 years — and almost zero in the U.S.