life expectancy

Global life expectancy fell by 1.6 years during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study published on Tuesday in the medical journal The Lancet shows. The study, described as the most comprehensive look at the pandemic's...

Researchers in Greece have come up with four tips that may help people reach the age of 100 by studying the places in the world with exceptionally long life expectancies. Several factors appear to affect life expectancy. Research has shown...

The gap in the life expectancy of men and women has been widening in the US in the last decade new research led by UC San Francisco and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health shows. According to the researchers,...

The average life expectancy in Greece is 80.2 years roughly the same as the European Union average (80.1 years), according to the latest statistics by Eurostat for 2021. The EU statistical agency says that for women in Greece, life expectancy...

Greece ranks in the top third in the whole of the European Union in terms of "healthy life years," according to a new study. This is quite a notable feat for a population with one of the highest smoking...

A new report published by the US Centers for Disease Control on Tuesday found that the Covid-19 pandemic lowered Americans' life expectancy by almost two years. According to the CDC, the average American person born in 2020 will live to...

According to the most recent data published by the Greek Statistics Authority (ELSTAT), the average life expectancy of Greek citizens rose from 77.2 years in 1990 to 81.5 years in 2016. However, this latest figure was not nearly as high as...

The economic crisis in Greece had a substantial impact on certain ages and overall shortens life expectancy rates, an Imperial College London study says A group of researchers studied life expectancy by 2030 in 35 countries across the world, including...

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has ranked its member countries' average life expectancy based on data from 2013. Average life expectancy at birth was 81.4 years for Greeks, the OECD reports. There is a high discrepancy between average...

With Norway being the most carefree nation in the world and Nigeria the most stressed-out country, Greece lies somewhere in the middle of the "Most Stressed Out Nations" list in a survey conducted by Bloomberg. Neighboring Turkey is less stressed...