Despite the higher annual costs of the obese and smoking cohorts, the healthy-living cohort incurs highest lifetime costs, due to its higher life expectancy, as shown in Table 1 . Furthermore, the ...

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India – Life Expectancy at 72.48 Years As for India, the life expectancy has seen a rise to about 72.48 years as of 2025, with women living longer at an average of 74.13 years compared to men at ...

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The recent publication by Laura Dwyer-Lindgren and colleagues1 is an important update on the previous Eight Americas analysis in 2005 by Murray and colleagues.2 The study by Dwyer-Lindgren and ...

From 2008 to 2010, the gap was 4.1 years, whereas between 2017 and 2019, the life expectancy gap grew to eight years.

Further research by a data firm, Macrotrends, reveals Nigeria’s life expectancy at birth for 2025 is projected at 56.36 years, up from 56.05 in 2024 and 54.46 in 2023.

Women tend to have longer life expectancy than men, with women living 81.1 years while men live 75.8 years, according to 2023 data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).