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Montevideo, September 21st 2024 - 11:04 UTC

Tag: life expectancy

  • Saturday, August 24th 2024 - 10:24 UTC

    Life expectancy reaches 76.4 years in Brazil

    Life expectancy had fallen after the Covid-19 pandemic but is slowly growing back

    A study released this week by Brazil’s Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) showed that life expectancy at birth in South America's largest country reached 76.4 years. Those born in 2023 can easily hope to live until the age of 79.7 years in the case of women while men would live until 73.1 years on average, Agencia Brasil reported. Before the Covid-19 pandemic, the overall projection stood at 76.2 years.

  • Monday, July 11th 2022 - 20:52 UTC

    Life expectancy drops from 2019 figures, UN says

    With fertility rate at historic lows, the COVID-19 pandemic, the climate crisis, wars, and humanitarian disasters proved that the world is “in peril,” Guterres argued

    The United Nations' World Population Prospects (WPP) report released Monday foresees the world's population will reach 8 billion people by November of 2022 and that India will surpass China as the country with the largest number of inhabitants.

  • Wednesday, November 6th 2019 - 09:03 UTC

    WHO recommends 15 minutes daily walking to improve productivity and life expectancy

    The WHO recommends that all adults should take at least 150 minutes of moderate exercise, or 75 minutes of vigorous exercise, a week

    The world economy could be boosted by as much as US$100 billion a year if employers successfully encouraged their staff to meet World Health Organization guidelines on exercise, according to an analysis of the economic impact of the activity.

  • Thursday, September 27th 2018 - 08:50 UTC

    Life expectancy growth in UK has halted: baby girls can reach 82.9 years and baby boys, 79.2

    Life expectancy in some parts of the UK has decreased: for males and females in Scotland and Wales it has declined by 0.1 years

    Growth in life expectancy in the UK has come to a halt, new figures show. A girl born between 2015 and 2017 is expected to live until 82.9 years old – no change on the previous figure for 2014-16, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The figure for baby boys born in 2015-17 is also unchanged, at 79.2 years.

  • Monday, May 19th 2014 - 13:54 UTC

    People living longer, both in rich and poor countries, says latest WHO report

    “Global life expectancy has improved because fewer children are dying before their fifth birthday” said Dr Margaret Chan

    People everywhere are living longer, according to the World Health Statistics 2014 published this week by the World Health Organization (WHO). Based on global averages, a girl who was born in 2012 can expect to live to around 73 years, and a boy to the age of 68. This is six years longer than the average global life expectancy for a child born in 1990.