On average, higher-income people live longer. Can you buy more time if you're not in the top 20%?

Older people who earn less than $20,000 a year die nine years sooner on average than those who earn $120,000 or more. That's the conclusion of a new analysis that shows a strong connection between ...

WASHINGTON – As the gap in life expectancy between the highest and lowest earners in the U.S. has widened over time, high earners have disproportionately received larger lifetime benefits from ...

Human life expectancy in high-income countries is no longer climbing at the rate it did in the 20th century, a new study suggests. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

How long Americans can expect to live varies dramatically -- and the gap continues to widen. A new report says health inequalities have, in essence, created 10 Americas. These mutually exclusive ...

Life expectancy in the United States varies by more than 20 years based on a person’s location or race, a new study shows. Authors of the report, which was published Thursday in The Lancet, divided ...

The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the planet's greatest driver of year-to-year climate swings, shapes temperature, ...

BackgroundIncome has seldom been used to study social differences in disability-free life expectancy (DFLE). This study investigates income inequalities in life expectancy and DFLE at age 50 and 65 ...