After more than a century of steady progress, new research warns that the world’s life expectancy boom is slowing, largely because improvements in early-life mortality have already been achieved.
People are living longer and longer lives than before, but the pace of growth in life expectancy has dropped sharply since the early twentieth century 1. José Andrade at the Max Planck Institute for ...
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BMJ Open: Life expectancy gains across US states between 1941 and 2000: a cohort study
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.
Life expectancy gains across US states between 1941 and 2000: a cohort study
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