US life expectancy further declines, largely due to COVID-19Life expectancy in the United States has declined for the second consecutive year, reaching levels that have not been seen since 1996, according to provisional data from the CDC.Emma Bascom...
year of the COVID-19 pandemic.The shift also reflects a widening gap relative to America's international peers, most of whom had already outpaced the U.S. before the pandemic.An analysis published by the Kaiser Family Foundationearlier this monthtracked life expectancy "rebounding in most compar...
(CNN)Life expectancy in the United States fell by a year and a half in 2020 primarily due to increases in death due to the Covid-19 pandemic, according to early data released by the US Centers for D…
Study co-author Sergei Scherbov noted that it took Europe decades for average life expectancy at birth to increase by six years -- from 72.8 years in 1990 to 78.6 years in 2019. "COVID-19 could thus set back this indicator in 2020 to the values observed some time ago," he said. "Ho...
Three-quarters of overall life expectancy lost during this period was attributed to COVID-19 deaths, according to a statement from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The deaths contributed to a gr...
Life expectancy in the U.S. decreased by nearly two years in 2020, mainly because of the pandemic, a new federal report suggests.
TOKYO - The average life expectancy of Japanese women and men decreased for the first time in a decade in 2021 as the country struggled with the COVID-19 pandemic, health ministry's statistics showed Friday. The average life span for Japanese women was 87.57 years, down by 0.14 year compare...
Latinos experienced the second-biggest decline, falling by 1.9 years since 2019 to a life expectancy of 79.9 years, lower than when it was first recorded in 2006. The figures "do not reflect the entirety of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, or other changes ...
to 2021.Large disparities in life expectancy were apparent throughout the study period but grew more substantial over time, particularly during the first two years of theCOVID-19 pandemic, the authors noted."The extent and magnitude of health disparities in American society are truly alarming in ...
Life expectancy in Chicago fell by nearly two years during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic -- in line with national trends, a new report finds.