1. Declining Life Expectancy Gains in Western Europe: Trends and Differences across 410 Regions (2002–2019) • Florian Bonnet, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED); Ina Alliger, Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB); Carlo Giovanni Camarda, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED); France Meslé, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED); Michael Muehlichen, Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB), Germany; Markus Sauerberg, Federal Institute for Population Research; Josselin Thuilliez, CNRS; Pavel Grigoriev, Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB), Germany.

2. Mortality Variation across U.S. States • Yuan Peng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology; Megan Cassidy Chiang, Stanford University; Wenyun Zuo, Stanford University; Zhen Guo, Huazhong University of Science and Technology; Shripad Tuljapurkar, Stanford University.

3. Blue Zones in Hong Kong? Searching for Areas of Exceptional Longevity in the Longest-Living Territory in the World • Roland Rau, University of Rostock & Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; Stuart Gietel-Basten, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

4. Trends and Cause Contributions to Area-level Socio-economic Inequalities in Life Expectancy in Australia, 2013-22. • Sergey Timonin, Australian National University; Tim Adair, University of Melbourne; Jenny Welsh, Australian National University; Vladimir Canudas-Romo, Australian National University.

5. Urbanization and Survival: Shaping the Rise in Life Expectancy across Latin America • Catalina Torres, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales Universidad de la República, Uruguay; jenny garcia, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED).