The number of men in the UK living to a very old age is increasing faster than the rate for women, helping to push the ...

Wales has the highest rate of 100-year-olds in the UK, statistics show. Researchers found that there were a record 16,600 centenarians in Britain in 2024 – a figure which has doubled from 8,300 in ...

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There were 24.0 centenarians per 100,000 people in the UK in 2024, up from 13.9 per 100,000 in 2004. The rate varies across ...

Even as life expectancy has increased in recent decades, whether someone was healthy did not match it. Here are ways to look at it.

New data indicates that life expectancy in Israel has jumped to almost a full additional year, leaving Israel at #4 in OECD ...

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Abacus Global Management reports increased lifespans are straining retirement security, highlighting a growing savings gap ...

The researchers also found that the sex most involved in raising offspring tends to have a greater lifespan. In longer-lived ...

Previous research investigating sex differences in brain ageing has shown mixed results, Ravndal adds. Several studies have ...