Countries With Economic Freedom Are Far Better Off
Even the poorest citizens of free countries fare better than the middle classes in economically repressive nations.
Even the poorest citizens of free countries fare better than the middle classes in economically repressive nations.
The Washington Post hectors Congress to make U.S. life expectancy a "political priority."
This progress has been widely shared, to the great benefit of the people at the bottom of the distribution.
Americans will be sicker and deader in the long run than they otherwise would have been.
The advent of effective new weight loss drugs offers hope for millions of overweight people.
Sex expert Helen Fisher says that careers and COVID have made singles less promiscuous and more serious about relationships.
Innovations in epidemiological statistics, artificial fertilizer, toilets, sanitation systems, and vaccines have allowed billions of people to flourish until old age.
We'll see about that, say anti-aging researchers.
Thanks to the first fall in drug overdose deaths since 1990, plus a continuing decline in cancer deaths
U.S. life expectancy peaked in 2014.
Don't believe news reports—we're healthier, richer, and safer than ever before.
An anti-market ideologue tortures the data at The Guardian.
Pope Francis is part of the problem, nuclear energy is part of the solution, and libertarians need to admit that not every regulation will turn us into Venezuela.
Largely due to increases in opioid overdose deaths
Lack of single payer hasn't seemed to hinder superior progress made in terms of life expectancy gains in the U.S. since UN records start in 1960.
Americans would save some money now, but at the long-run cost of sicker and shorter lives
An estimated 111,000 excess premature deaths occurred in white individuals between 1999 and 2014
Good news: Cancer mortality rate has dropped from its peak of 215.1 (per 100,000 population) in 1991 to 166.4 in 2012.
Male life expectancy dropped 0.2 of a year; female life expectancy was 0.1 of a year lower.
Who wants to live to be a 100? Someone who is 99 years old. Especially if he feels like a 25 year-old.
New study by Brookings Institution scholars reports the mortality reduction benefits of higher education.
Ronald Bailey reviews Johan Norberg's new book celebrating Progress
There's never been a better time to be alive
Go find out at "Your Life In Numbers" over at the Human Progress program at the Cato Institute
Over the past century, the prospects and circumstances of most of humanity have spectacularly improved
Nearly 2 years more of disability-free life expectancy
Dictatorships may value literacy as much as democracies, but they value life a lot less.
The gap in life expectancy between the top and bottom 1 percent of income for American men is nearly 15 years. For women, it's 10 years.
Rich men average 12 years longer; rich women average 10 years more.
Drugs, suicide, and liver disease responsible for 500,000 extra deaths since 1999.
And still the ultimate death rate remains frustratingly stuck at 100 percent.
Global life expectancy up more than six years too.
"The first person to live to 1,000 might be 60 already," asserts anti-aging researcher Aubrey de Grey
We haven't achieved utopia, but a new website documents the enormous progress humanity has made, especially over the last two centuries