Average life expectancy in Japan has fallen for the first time in a decade, and deaths from COVID-19 are the primary culprit, figures show.

Life expectancy (LE) is a measure that describes the health status of a population. The few published studies that have examined the impact of hypertension on LE were predominantly performed in ...

Most of the countries with the longest life expectancies in 2022 were wealthy nations in Asia and Europe, with Liechtenstein ...

The high life expectancy enjoyed in Japan is largely down to the nation's healthy diet, according to a new study. The population of the island nation, which has one of the lowest mortality rates ...

Taipei had the highest average life expectancy in Taiwan last year at 83.40 years, followed by Hsinchu City (81.52 years), ...

The start performers with life expectancy beyond 80 years include Japan, Spain and Switzerland. There are 25 OECD countries where average life expectancy is above 80 years.

Australia, Japan, Denmark and Norway were the only countries in the study that showed an increase in life expectancy across all years for both men and women.

Researchers report on the average life expectancy of chimpanzees in Japan. The average life expectancy of chimpanzees who reach adulthood -- reported as 12-years-old in the paper -- is 40 years ...

Spain will overtake Japan’s long-held position at the top of the world’s life expectancy rankings by 2040. The United States is set to take a big fall in global rankings, according to new ...

Smoking reduces life expectancy by ten years in Japan, but much of the risk can be avoided by giving up smoking, a new paper shows.