Italy's population stops shrinking as strong migration offsets a deep gap between births and deaths, according to provisional data for 2025. The country’s resident population stood at 58.943 million on Jan. 1, 2026, nearly unchanged from a year earlier....
The life expectancy of ancient Greeks has been a subject of controversy among historians. But what was the actual lifespan of a typical adult?
The misleading nature of life expectancy statistics
It is a common modern belief that in antiquity, people...
Life expectancy across European countries, including Greece, is stalling, with experts blaming this on an alarming mix of poor diet, mass inactivity and soaring obesity, according to research published in the Lancet Public Health journal.
The study, led by the...
Researchers in Greece have come up with four tips that may help people reach the age of 100 by studying the places in the world with exceptionally long life expectancies.
Several factors appear to affect life expectancy. Research has shown...
Global life expectancy fell by 1.6 years during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study published on Tuesday in the medical journal The Lancet shows.
The study, described as the most comprehensive look at the pandemic's...
The gap in the life expectancy of men and women has been widening in the US in the last decade new research led by UC San Francisco and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health shows.
According to the researchers,...
The average life expectancy in Greece is 80.2 years roughly the same as the European Union average (80.1 years), according to the latest statistics by Eurostat for 2021.
The EU statistical agency says that for women in Greece, life expectancy...
Greece ranks in the top third in the whole of the European Union in terms of "healthy life years," according to a new study. This is quite a notable feat for a population with one of the highest smoking...
A new report published by the US Centers for Disease Control on Tuesday found that the Covid-19 pandemic lowered Americans' life expectancy by almost two years.
According to the CDC, the average American person born in 2020 will live to...
