expectancy

The coronavirus crisis plunged global life expectancy down to 71.5 years in 2021.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

But charities have warned that it will disproportionately affect areas of the UK where life expectancy is lower, and those on lower incomes.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

The genetic analyses suggested that elevated tyrosine levels may have a potentially causal relationship with reduced life expectancy in men.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026

The child was born with Amish lethal microcephaly, a rare genetic disorder associated with a severely shortened life expectancy, and had been receiving palliative care since shortly after birth.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

The President switched off the music and, with the final note of the final stanza, there was absolute silence—the silence of stretched expectancy, quivering and creeping with a galvanic life.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

Lower-income workers, who may have physically demanding jobs they can’t continue to do will into their 60s, and women, who have longer life expectancies than men, are locked into lower benefits “for life,” he added.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

Although these populations tend to have some of the world's longest life expectancies, they also experience relatively high levels of frailty in old age.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026

The aging of the baby boom generation—known as the “silver tsunami”—along with rising life expectancies pointed to years of steady demand and pricing power.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025

After the Great Depression, life expectancies increased alongside the percentage of older Americans living in poverty — by 1935, 50% of older adults were poor, and by 1940, almost two-thirds were poor.

From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2025

He used these to calculate life expectancies for each age group, and to estimate the population of London, which he concluded was 460,000—not, as had been claimed, 7 million or so.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton