Fifty years of economic change have taken a heavy toll on some Americans, especially those with less education who not only have been left behind but are sicker and living shorter lives, according to ...

Life expectancy convergence among nations since 1820 ... The Changing Relation between Mortality and Level of Economic Development. Population Studies 29(2): 231–248. Reprinted in the International ...

The Human Development Index (HDI) is a measurement created by the United Nations that compares the social and economic development ... years of schooling, life expectancy at birth, and gross ...

Among the 38 member states that make up the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the U.S. ranked 30th for life expectancy. Life expectancy at birth declined sharply across the ...

While GDP has become the gold standard by which economic development is judged ... taking into account life expectancy, standards of living, and education. An increasing amount of research reveals ...

Drawing on the development experience and advances in economic analysis since the 1950s, World Development Report 2024 identifies what developing economies can do to avoid the “middle-income trap.” ...