Differences in life expectancy between Black and white Americans decreased in the decades leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic ...

The U.S. ranks 29th in life expectancy at birth among peer nations in the OECD. Changing that goes well beyond the health ...

But this analysis reveals a steady improvement in Black people's life expectancy from 2000 to about 2012. During this period, the gap between Black and white life expectancies shrank. This is true ...

Americans’ health has long been unequal, but a new study shows that the disparity between the life expectancies of different populations has nearly doubled since 2000.