Ever wondered where people live the longest in the world? According to Worldometers, here is the list of the top 7 countries by gender with the highest life expectancy in 2025. showing which nations lead in healthy, long lives.

Top 7 countries with the highest life expectancy in 2025 by Gender

In the year 2000, it was predicted that the person who will live for more than 150 years had already been born. That bold assertion came from confidence that medical advancements in the 20th century would lead to increase in life expectancy.

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The Indian government released a statement in response to a recent study claiming that life expectancy in the country significantly declined during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Study claims life expectancy declined by 2.6 years in India during COVID-19. Government issues response

The global life expectancy is lowest in over a decade, World Health Organization suggested in a report on Friday (May 24). The average age that a person is expected to live is now at 71.

World's life expectancy is lowest in over a decade due to Covid: WHO

May 17th is World Hypertension Day - a day that is aimed to help people understand the causes of hypertension and also the risk that it carries. the disease is one of the factors that impacts the lie expectancy.

Longer life span to increase health burden, study finds rise in global metabolic health risks

The United Nations' Human Development Index (HDI) report has revealed that India's average life expectancy reached 67.7 years in 2022, up from 62.7 years the previous year.

UN applauds India's increase in life expectancy and per capita income

For many of us waking up early to go to school and college to attend hours-long classes may have been boring and a pain, but as it turns out, it might not all be in vain, as the first systematic study which directly linked education to gains in longevity found that every year we spent studying at an educational institution improved our life expectancy.

‘Stay in school!’: Study finds link between higher education and improved life expectancy

For over a century, it has been established that women generally outlive men. However, recent research led by UC San Francisco and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health shows a major widening of this gap in the United States over the past decade.

US men die six years before women, as life expectancy chasm widens

A new environmental report reveals that air pollution is now a major risk to life expectancy in south Asia. Well, south Asia accounts for more than half of the total life years lost globally to pollution.

Study: Air pollution reduces life expectancy in South Asia

A recent study shows that the '10,000 steps' rule may not be true. Experts say nearly 4,000 steps can help increase life expectancy. Who came up with the '10,000 steps' rule? Here's what Molly Gambhir has to say.

Gravitas | Study: nearly 4,000 steps a day improves

As per a study published on May 17 in the journal Science Advances, results from almost 36 years of data of 200 baboons in southern Kenya indicate that forging strong social relationships can help eliminate the effects of a traumatic childhood, both in humans and baboons.

Forging strong social relationships helps overcome childhood trauma, prolongs life: Study

Singapore has recorded a drop in life expectancy for the first time. The drop has been driven by higher mortality rates due to covid-19. The country has reported 2,490 more deaths between 2020 and 2022.

Singapore reports first drop in life expectancy

For a nation that is only 75 years young, India has achieved some big things. Did you know that since 1947, India has seen more than 100% increase In its life expectancy.

India@75: Life expectancy then and now

There has been a long-held belief that women outlive men. But a recent study seems to be challenging the age-old belief. A new study though states that while men do have a lower life expectancy, they have a "substantial chance of outliving females”.

New study suggests men have higher life expectancy than women if they are...

After ten years, India finally sees an increase in its average life expectancy. The country's life expectancy at birth has spiked by two years to 69.7 from 2015 to 2019, shows a report by Sample Registration System (SRS).

India reports highest life expectancy in ten years, but still below global average

India, the second most polluted country in the world is already having a deadly impact on the people. Indians are losing at least five years as a result of pollution. The average life expectancy has taken a hit due to the kind of the air that the residents are breathing

Pollution becomes greatest threat to human health in India

A study of death data has revealed that the United States had the second steepest decline in life expectancy among high-income countries last year. Published in the British Medical Journal, the study analysed premature death in 37 countries.

Life expectancy fell sharply in US due to pandemic, homicides and drug overdose

For the first time in the last 40 years, a decline has been observed in the life expectancy for the men in the UK. This change has emerged specifically due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Covid has decreased life expectancy for men, but not for women: Study

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has cut the average life expectancy in Italy by 1.2 years. Italy’s national statistics bureau ISTAT in a report said that compared with 2019, the nationwide life expectancy for those born in 2020 has now dropped by over one year.

Italy's life expectancy drops amid COVID-19 battle

The coronavirus pandemic has negatively affected our lifestyle, economy, mental and physical health, social life and much more. Now, according to a new study, it has also disturbed the average life expectancy.

Life expectancy in US fell drastically due to coronavirus: Study

According to a recent study published in the British Medical Journal, the COVID-19 pandemic might’ve caused the worst decline in US life expectancy, that too while disproportionately affecting Black and Hispanic Americans.

Study shows pandemic's disproportionate impact on US people of colour, decrease in life expectancy

India: Pollution crisis deepens regularly, due to which life expectancy reducing day by day.

India: Pollution crisis deepens regularly

The retirement age will rise to 63 in 2022 from the current retirement age of 62 and to 65 by 2030, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said. Singapore, which has the longest life expectancy at birth in the world, is growing more dependent on its older residents as birth rates fall and foreign labour is restricted.

Singapore to raise retirement age to 65 years: Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong

The prospect of living longer and passing a smaller legacy to successors worried 35 percent of respondents

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