New paper out in BMJ Open 🎉
doi.org/10.1136/bmjo...
We revisit US longevity trends and find:
👉 Life expectancy increased in all states (1941–2000 cohorts)
👉 Inequalities exist, but are smaller than previously suggested
👉 The key question now is why progress slowed

☺️ What a view!

👉Enjoy #REVES2026‼️

Looking for a new position in 2026? The call for a new postdoc or research scientist in the newly formed research group on Reproductive Ageing by D. Susie Lee is still open until January 11.

Apply now!

LEdecomp: Decompose Life Expectancy by Age (and Cause) A set of all-cause and cause-specific life expectancy sensitivity and decomposition methods, including Arriaga (1984) &lt;<a href="https://doi.org/10.2307%2F2061029" target="_top">doi:10.2307/2061029<...

Over a dozen ways to decompose life expectancy, all in one (we hope) friendly interface. Please have a look at the LEdecomp R package cran.r-project.org/web/packages... See the function LEdecomp() for access to all of them. If we left something out, please shout! #rstats #demography #mortality

📢 The #REVES2026 Call for Papers is OPEN!

Join us to discuss about aging, longevity, and population health — with a focus on health expectancy and policy impact!

📆 11–13 March 2026|Tokyo, Japan

🔗 www.reves2026.com

📌 Submit by 30 November 2025

reves-network.org

#demography
#LifeExpectancy

A woman on her 100th birthday. Stock photo.

Life expectancy has increased in high-income countries over the past century, but mortality forecasting methods suggest people living today won’t see dramatic gains. Even people born in 2000 are unlikely to reach a life expectancy of 100. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🚨Job Offer🚨PhD Student Position
The @lshtm.bsky.social, in partnership with the @mpidr.bsky.social is opening an 18-month Research Assistant position, with the successful candidate embarking on a PhD program at LSHTM.
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...
@ezagheni.bsky.social #phd #jobs #demography

🎉🎊A week full of celebrations
✨Two ERC Starting Grants for the MPIDR✨
We are thrilled to announce that @marilianep.bsky.social and @ugobas.bsky.social have each been awarded with an ERC Starting Grant by the @erc.europa.eu. #ERCStG
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...
#ERCStartingGrant #longevity

Cohort Profile: Health Inequalities in Catalonia (the HEALIN cohort) Declines in different causes of mortality have been notable over the last few decades, resulting in unprecedented increases in longevity worldwide [1, 2].

📢Excited to share our new article describing the HEALIN cohort—a Catalan pop-based data of >1.5M people. This is the starting point for future research on health inequalities and multimorbidity in Catalonia. More info 👉 shorturl.at/xawaj
@demosocupf.bsky.social @cedemografia.bsky.social

When will life expectancy reach 100? No time soon Average expected lifespan is still increasing in high-income countries, but the rate of increase is slowing.

Average expected lifespan is still increasing in high-income countries, but the rate of increase is slowing.

go.nature.com/4mGTUCK

Authors: @josecas91.bsky.social, Carlo Giovanni Camarda, Héctor Pifarré i Arolas

Institutions:
@ined-english.bsky.social @uwlafollette.bsky.social @uwmadison.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social 2/2

A group photo of the participants at REVES Conference in Tampere

The participants at #REVES2025 Conference in Tampere 🇫🇮!

REVES is the International Network on Health Expectancy.

CRAN: Package verdata Facilitates use and analysis of data about the armed conflict in Colombia resulting from the joint project between La Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz (JEP), La Comisión para el Esclarecimiento de la Verdad, la Convivencia y la No repetición (CEV), and the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG). The data are 100 replicates from a multiple imputation through chained equations as described in Van Buuren and Groothuis-Oudshoorn (2011) &lt;<a href="https://doi.org/10.18637%2Fjss.v045.i03" target="_top">doi:10.18637/jss.v045.i03</a>&gt;. With the replicates the user can examine four human rights violations that occurred in the Colombian conflict accounting for the impact of missing fields and fully missing observations.

New CRAN package verdata with initial version 1.0.0
#rstats
https://cran.r-project.org/package=verdata

Volume 62 Issue 2 | Demography | Duke University Press

The April issue has posted—5 research notes and 13 articles—research on a deportation boomerang, length of widowhood, schooling & old-age cognition, contraceptive use & discontinuation, social fathering & childlessness, self-assessed health & fertility … and more. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/i...

#PAA2025 – we are on our way! 🛫🚄🎒🛄
Who else is starting to pack for Washington D.C.?
If you want to know where & when to meet us at the conference, check out our MPIDR program: www.demogr.mpg.de/go/PAA2025
Meet us at booth 212 in Liberty.
Max, the MPIDR Alpaka will be there and bring a friend.

“An Overlapping Cohorts Perspective of Lifespan Inequality”: Hector Pifarre i Arolas et al. introduce a new perspective "that fully incorporates cohort trajectories of all cohorts alive in the period of consideration.” @mpidr.bsky.social @pophel.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...