How long you live depends on where you live, new research suggests. Americans’ life expectancy increased throughout the 20th century, although in some states, particularly in the South, people aren’t ...

Southern states like Oklahoma, Mississippi, and West Virginia have seen minimal improvements in life expectancy over the past century, with some showing less than three years of gain since 1900.

After more than a century of steady progress, new research warns that the world’s life expectancy boom is slowing, largely because improvements in early-life mortality have already been achieved.