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Detailed data on the ages at which people die can give good indications of a person’s remaining life span.
The historical correlation between economic prosperity and increased life expectancy might suggest that growth is generally a good thing. However, other evidence points to the downside of growth.
How does Australia’s health care system compare to our peers in the OECD? Here we highlight five charts showing Australia’s relative performance.
An accurate prediction of survival can enable earlier conversations about preferences and wishes at the end of life, and earlier introduction of palliative care.
An analysis by scholars at the University of California, Davis showed that just a small number of cities in California actively consider racism when developing their plans.
The financial impacts of an ageing Australia aren’t particularly worrisome, but we’ve been worrying for decades.
People who developed diabetes, psychosis and congestive heart failure, in that order, experienced the largest reduction in life expectancy
Without policies that take account of a growing population with few working-age people, DRC risks seeing an increase in poverty and hunger.
New research shows that preventable deaths are increasing in the US at the same time that life expectancy keeps dropping.
Idaho, Montana and Florida had the highest population growth among US states between 2020 and 2022.
A new study shows that the gut microbiota has little or no effect on our weight, metabolism and risk of developing chronic diseases.
We all have a stake in life extension research, since we all age and are all slated to die. But one of the greatest risks it brings is the potential for social stagnation.
Unrelenting poverty, underemployment and historical trauma all contribute to the health challenges faced by Indigenous Americans.
Beyond the basic need for shelter, homelessness has a direct impact on health. In particular, homelessness doubles the risk of dying from cancer.
Arguments about population growth are unhelpful, distracting and often racist.
A new report predicts child obesity could reduce Australian life expectancy by more than four years. Here’s why you should be a little skeptical.
Life expectancy rose in western Europe in 2021 but fell further in US and eastern Europe.
More people died from the austerity in the five years before the pandemic than have died from COVID since.
Nasty, brutish – but not necessarily short. Here’s how archaeologists know plenty of people didn’t die young.
Top contributors
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Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford
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Director of the International Laboratory of Demography and Human Capital, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
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Professor of Economics, emeritus, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
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Regional Adviser, Immunisation, WHO Regional Office for Africa, Stellenbosch University
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Honorary Research Fellow, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Brass Blacker Associate Professor of Demography at LSHTM and Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, University of Oxford
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Health Policy, The University of Melbourne
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AXA Professor of Epidemiology of Ageing, Newcastle University
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Senior Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR), UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor of Social Science and Public Policy, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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Professor of Biogerontology, University of Brighton
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Dean of the Faculty of Social, Human and Mathematical Sciences, University of Southampton
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Professor of Public Health, Newcastle University
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Professor of Food Policy, City, University of London
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Professor of Public Health, Griffith University
